debmode

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2006-03-31 00:06]:

> Hello Rafael,
> 
> Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Thu 30. Mar, 16:33 (+0200):
> > * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2006-03-29 17:46]:
> > 
> > > I've started writing a Debian mode for jed. Nothing mind, but it is
> > > helpful especially the autoupdate of the date in changelog files.
> > 
> > Great!  I would love to see all the Emacs functionalities in package
> > dpkg-dev-el translated into SLang for JED.  Keep going.
> 
> I don't know this mode. Which features do you miss?

It is not a single mode, actually.  The dpkg-dev-el package contains:

   debian-bts-control - builds control at bugs.debian.org email messages;
   debian-changelog-mode - a helper mode for Debian changelogs;
   debian-control-mode - a helper mode for debian/control files;
   debian-copyright - major mode for Debian package copyright files;
   readme-debian - major mode for editing README.Debian files.

File /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev-el/README.Debian contains a description of
these files.

I mostly use the debian-changelog-mode, which is extremely handy for
inserting new items, bug-closing strings, and trailer lines automatically
in debian/changelog files.

It would be great to have them translated into JED.  It is a shame that I
need Emacs to produce the Debian JED packages... :-)
 
-- 
Rafael