I've just uploaded to experimental/NEW a packaging helper called dh_elpa (for the punny among you, pronounced D-helpa) that installs upstream emacs lisp "packages" for GNU emacs in a way that is compatible with the native "elpa" packaging system [1]. Currently this has the limitation that it doesn't deal with byte compilation at all, but for lots of simple packages it works fine without it, and it means the resulting packages can be maintainer-script free. This might turn out to be a terrible idea and never leave experimental, but I'm thinking of using the prefix "elpa-" for packages of this type. For example I currently have a source package called "circe" [3] that creates two binary packages elpa-circe and These are (cue flames) only compatible with GNU Emacs, and only with emacs >= 24. On the other hand, many interesting and useful packages fall into this category. I haven't decided so far how this will relate to the current emacsen-common infrastructure, if at all. If your interested in playing with the tool, it's available in a public git repo [2]. I'd suggest emacs related technical discussion to debian-emacsen@l.d.o and discussion about package namespaces in debian-devel. Please CC me with any answers. I'm not on debian-devel, and I don't mind 2 copies for the other list. David [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Packaging.html#Packaging [2]: git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/dh-elpa.git [3]: git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/circe.git
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