Bug#804492: bash completion

[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 other magic?
>>
>
> This is actually a fair point, although I see no alternative. James
> stated AFAIR that he wanted the devscripts to pick up the location of
> the bash completion directory from the bash-completion package as we do
> in the scripts/Makefile. Putting these links in debian/links does not
> currently support this.
>
> I did experiment with trying to create the symlinks inside
> $BC_BUILD_DIR. But then all that happens is that you do not get symlinks
> at all.
>
> I guess you could have some symbolic links in the install step of
> scripts/Makefile. But I am not sure that is any better. We have a
> separate dh_link step for a reason.
>
> I think a better approach would be if the dh-exec package could be
> extended to support debian/links. Then you could put variables in
> debian/links.
>


Okay I realise this is done with edit-patch and add-patch. So I will 
give it a try once the package builds again.