I can understand why bash* files should not get altered when
installing autojump.
But when installing autojump, users (like me) would expect the same
behavior as manual installation.
I think it cold also be reported upstream, check if they don't have an
alternative solution.
Else some documentation is missing. Not sure where it should be
located though (may be in the information of the package?),
but it would avoid some problems.
Opinion?
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
Arnaud Gelas, 2011-11-22 11:52 UTC+0100:
I have been using autojump on other machines (Mac, and other linux
boxes with various distributions).
Part of the standard installation of autojump (see install.sh) is to
add the right lines into user's bashrc?
Shouldn't it be the same when installing autojump on debian?
No, I am sorry but it cannot. Adding it to the users' shell
configuration is not an option, and changing the global shell
configuration is not acceptable either, since it would not be sane to
dynamically patch another package's configuration file.
When I had to make that decision I checked the policy and took some
advice from other Debian contributors; I do not remember exactly the
arguments that made me choose not to configure the shell but to
document
how to do that, but I do remember that I had very good reason to do
so.
:-)
If you need I can check the Debian Policy again, but I do not think I
can change that. If you have arguments to the opposite option, or
possible solutions, I would be glad to hear them, otherwise this bug
report should be closed or perhaps tagged as wontfix.
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