How can a package install additional syntax files ?

[أحمد المحمودي]

Hello,

  I am currently working on a debian package, the upstream tarball 
  includes a couple of syntax files and an filetype detection script.

  The README included with the tarball says to install the syntax files 
  in ~/.vim/syntax/ & the ftplugin script in ~/.vim/ftdetect/

  Yet I am thinking of installing those scripts system wide, so I have a 
  couple of questions:

  1. How to do so ? I found in /usr/share/vim/ that there is a symlink 
  called 'vimcurrent' pointing to 'vim72'. So should I install to 
  /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/... ? What if vim 7.3 comes out one day, and 
  the user upgrades to vim 7.3, I imagine that vimcurrent will then be 
  pointing to a 'vim7.3', but I don't think that files installed by my 
  package will be copied/moved to the new path, right ?

  2. I don't see an 'ftdetect' in /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/, but I 
  there is an 'ftplugin' folder, should that filetype detection script 
  be installed in 'ftplugin' ?

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