Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-17 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Benjamin, Answers below: On 17. 11. 15 21:20, Benjamin Drung wrote: Hi Nicholas, I have a few questions about that applied patch: 1) Why do you copy all bash completions to BC_BUILD_DIR? I see no reason for that additional step. The problem is that the scripts in the

Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-17 Thread Nicholas Bamber
On 17. 11. 15 22:43, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Benjamin, Answers below: On 17. 11. 15 21:20, Benjamin Drung wrote: Hi Nicholas, I have a few questions about that applied patch: ... 3) Why do you create the symlinks via debian/links instead of the Makefile where you do all the

Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-17 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi Nicholas, Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2015, 10:04 + schrieb Nicholas Bamber: > On 10/11/15 12:17, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > > On 10/11/15 11:59, James McCoy wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:56:26AM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > > > > > > > > On the contrary, I think changing Makefiles

Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-11 Thread Nicholas Bamber
On 10/11/15 12:17, Nicholas Bamber wrote: On 10/11/15 11:59, James McCoy wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:56:26AM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: On the contrary, I think changing Makefiles is much more appropriate. Installing the completion files in the right place under the right name

Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-10 Thread Nicholas Bamber
tag 804492 + patch thanks The attached patch is the simplest, most simple minded (and the easiest diff to read). It consists only of symbolic link declarations in debian/links and modifications to scripts/*.bash_completion . There are other ways of approaching this that would have less

Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-10 Thread James McCoy
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:56:26AM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > There are other ways of approaching this that would have less dependence on > the use of symbolic links. I certainly would suggest that this heavy use of > symbolic links should be transitional, but some use is neccessary since the

Bug#804492: bash completion

2015-11-10 Thread Nicholas Bamber
On 10/11/15 11:59, James McCoy wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:56:26AM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: On the contrary, I think changing Makefiles is much more appropriate. Installing the completion files in the right place under the right name should happen regardless of whether this is