Bug#671551: ecasound-el: debian-pkg-add-load-path-item

[Kevin Ryde]

Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio at gmail.com> writes:
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand what you are saying. Could you please point me to
> a package that uses debian-pkg-add-load-path-item?

debian-el in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51debian-el.el for example

  (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item
   (concat "/usr/share/"
           (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor)
           "/site-lisp/debian-el"))

or you can let-bind the flavour directory expression, eg. haml-elisp

  (let ((package-dir (concat "/usr/share/"
                             (symbol-name flavor)
                             "/site-lisp/haml-elisp")))
  ;; If package-dir does not exist, the haml-mode package must have
  ;; removed but not purged, and we should skip the setup.
    (when (file-directory-p package-dir)
      ;; Use debian-pkg-add-load-path-item per s9 of debian emacs subpolicy
      (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item package-dir )
      (autoload 'haml-mode "haml-mode"
        "Major mode for editing haml-mode files." t)
      (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.haml\\'" . haml-mode))
      ))


> I've looked into a few but
> all of them use load-path in their startup scripts.

Many don't obey the policy yet, and cut and paste seems to propagate
setups from one package to another :).  But the intention described in
the debian-emacs-policy.gz is sound.




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