On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:33:45 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > Thanks for providing dh_bash-completion, I didn't know about this > > tool until a few hours ago. > Eheh, that's some magic by me :-P
I saw your name in the manpage :) > > I still have a tiny complaint: IMO the behaviour of > > dh_bash-completion is counter-intuitive because it installs _the > > file_ debian/package.bash-completion whereas the other debhelper > > helpers act on files _mentioned_ in debian/package.foo. > It works the same way as dh_lintian works -- it doesn't seem counter-intuitive > at all, once you read the manpage :-P I didn't say counter-documentation :) (And FWIW, I think dh_lintian and dh_bash-completion differ, because for the former you have exactly one file and that file is Debian specific, whereas a bash completion file can come from upstream and can be named in any way.) > > Please consider changing the behaviour of dh_bash-completion for > > future releases. > Would you be against a debian/package.bash-completion-files doing what you are > asking for? Would it be overkill? I don't really want to break other people's > packages already using dh_bash-completion ;-) Ack, changing the behaviour would break packages relying on the current behaviour. A nice feature would be to detect if debian/package.bash-completion _is_ a bash completion snippet or if it just is a list of files :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Josh With: New kilk cow blues
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