Re: RFS: macaulay2

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Doug Torrance <douglas.a.torrance@gmail.com> writes:

>
>> - couldn't the emacs component be another source-package ?
>
> I considered this, but it's too tied to Macaulay2 itself.  It doesn't 
> build by itself; several of the files in the M2-emacs submodule are 
> generated during the main Macaulay2 build.  And Macaulay2 won't build if 
> the files in that submodule aren't present (which based on your later 
> emails, you've discovered!)  The submodule was actually only split from 
> the main Macaulay2 repository a few weeks ago.
>

For new emacs related binary packages, I recommend using dh_elpa and the
elpa-* namespace.

You can find an example at

    https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianEmacsenTeam/elpa-hello?highlight=%28dh_elpa%29

presumably you'd want to keep the maintainer as Debian Science team
(whatever the correct address turns out to be).

Feel free to send mail to debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org (or join
#debian-emacs on oftc) for help.

d