On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:07:17 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:33:45 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > > 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.)
Point for you. > > > 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 :) Ok, I'll work on this, keep in touch! :-) David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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