Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > On 10/15/2013 07:04 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:> Apparently two (mostly > orthogonal) problems have been squeezed into a > > single bug report: > > > > 1) Is the name /usr/bin/coverage appropriate? > > Please let's focus on providing /usr/bin/coverage.
I'm not convinced Debian's ‘python-coverage’ should arrogate the name ‘/usr/bin/coverage’ to itself. We all seem to agree; your position seems to be that a decision made upstream should overrule that. > I don't really care by what mechanism, as long as the unit tests are > working, and Debian behaves like upstream coverage package from pypi. As with a lot of other software, Debian packages can patch hard-coded command name invocations to match the command names in Debian. I've had to do this with other works; I've even had productive discussions with upstream to convince them not to hard-code the command names everywhere and allow parameterised command names to make packaging easier. > Nearly all OpenStack projects are using testrepository. All of them > are using python-coverage. That sounds like an excellent central point to make the command name parameterisable: fix it in one place to match the Debian ‘python-coverage’ package, and all OpenStack packages can benefit from that. Note that I don't know whether that would work, but it's one option that seems available. > Many python modules are as well, and I had to patch some of them to > avoid the problem (sorry, I can't remember which one right now...). I > would like that it doesn't happen again, and also that our users (eg: > developers trying to find out unit test coverage) can run the coverage > tests without troubles. Patching upstream's assumptions of command names is a feature of the landscape for Debian packagers. I don't consider that a reason to presume ‘/usr/bin/coverage’ on Debian should refer to a Python-specific tool. -- \ “Why doesn't Python warn that it's not 100% perfect? Are people | `\ just supposed to “know” this, magically?” —Mitya Sirenef, | _o__) comp.lang.python, 2012-12-27 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7w38o2kt3r.fsf...@benfinney.id.au
