Also a changelog rant: Some packages ship changelogs with broken Emacs Local Variables at the bottom. Ie Local variables: mode: debian-changelog add-log-mailing-address "xxx@xxx.xxx" End: It's nice for us to fix it. To delete that block totally is also OK since nobody seems to really need it. (Even Emacs itself has better work around.) BTW, the third line above should read: add-log-mailing-address: "xxx@xxx.xxx" ^