On 07/02/2015 02:07 AM, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:07:30PM +0000, Perry, Sean wrote: >> BTW, see dh_bash-completion from the debhelper package. When in doubt about >> packaging on a deb based distro look at the debhelper tools source (which is >> perl). >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Perry, Sean >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 4:04 PM >> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [all][packaging] Adding files to /etc in a >> package >> >> According to Debian standards (which Ubuntu follows mostly) if a package >> ships bash completion information that file belongs in /etc/bash_completion.d >> with a file named after the package. You can look in that dir on an >> Ubuntu/debian box and see the setup. > > Right, but I'm talking about python packaging. Which is certainly closely > related to system/distribution packaging, but lacks a lot of the machinery > to get it right.
Correct. Python packaging is made for packaging ... python! Not configuration files and other system bits. > What I'm trying to do is: > 1) make it simple for the 'developer' comsumers of the python package to use > bash completions (witghout needing the system packages) Use the source, luke! Or write yourself a small shell script... > 2) Help the system/distribution packagers or at the very least not make thier > life more difficult. If you attempt to address this, you're making my life miserable. Please don't do it, thanks. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
