[maemo-developers] creating a .deb package for emacs

[From: Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:36:01 +0200 Daniel M German <dmg at uvic.ca> wrote: 

DMG> I was able to cross-compile emacs-nox for the N800 (emacs22.1), and it
DMG> runs well (my early experiences are below). 

You can try my build, which works fine with X so you get full graphics.
It was built from CVS a while ago, and runs fine.  With a BT keyboard it
runs perfectly, I was even able to read news and mail with Gnus and get
on IRC channels with ERC.

http://lifelogs.com/emacs_22.0.93-1_armel.deb

DMG> THe question is, how do I create .deb package for it? Is there an easy
DMG> way to take a debian .deb package and turn it into a maemo package?

For Emacs in particular, I tried to Hildonize it, that it, set up the
main X window so clicking in it would bring up the onscreen keyboard.
This did not work reliably and life interfered so I haven't worked on it
since, but I can send you the correspondence threads if you're
interested in picking the project up.

Ted