Re: Extra files in fountain-mode ELPA package

["Paul W. Rankin" <pwr@sdf.org>]

> ELPA doesn't "do" anything (it's just a protocol), but as for GNU ELPA
> it builds packages in a fairly simplistic way.  Given the current 
> state
> of fountain-mode, it should ignore the `docs` subdirectory because it
> will decide that fountain-mode is a "simple" package based on the fact
> that there's only one .el file (in that case, the package is made of
> that .el file and nothing else).
>
> If you want to include more than that single file, you'll probably 
> want
> to set `Package-Type: multi` in the pseudo-headers.
>
> And if instead you want to prevent the `docs` from appearing in the
> tarball (say, because you added a second .el file), then you can use
> a `.elpaignore` file to say so (see the elpa.git/README file for more
> details).

Excellent, thanks Stefan :)