[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#512917: dh_bash-completion: unexpected behaviour

[David Paleino]

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

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