Bug#804492: bash completion

[James McCoy]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:56:26AM +0000, 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
> same code suffices for several commands.

I don't see a rush to get this done such that we need a transitional
step of adding lots of symlinks we don't actually think are useful.

> One approach would be to prepare a
> 'bash-completion' directory as a build step which would require changes to
> scripts/Makefile rather than debian/links but I think that would be less
> transparent.

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 being packaged in Debian or
a downstream (possibly non-Debian based) distro, so it should happen as
much as possible in the build process, not in the packaging.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>