[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#944249: Bug#944249: gnuplot-mode does not work with emacs26

[David Bremner]

Agustin Martin <agmartin at debian.org> writes:

>
> I have been thinking about this and I see a problem with the elpa way of
> handling prefix auto-mode-alist associations. They go to a file that is not
> a conffile. So, if that kind of conflicts appear it is not as easy to
> handle as just editing one of the conffiles and commenting the undesired
> association.
>

I guess it should still be possible to override these settings,
definitely for an individual user, or probably also system-wide. But
Debian should really not ship packages with conflicts, whatever
mechanism of setting variables is used.

d