On 07/05/2016 04:47 PM, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote: > Hi Thomas, > >> I did lots of that in OpenStack. You can have a look at one of our tool >> to handle the dh_auto_install for Python: >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-pkg-tools.git/tree/build-tools/pkgos-dh_auto_install >> >> The way to use it in your debian/rules file is to do: >> pkgos-alternative slugify slugify >> >> [ this tool is available at: >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-pkg-tools.git/tree/misc/pkgos-alternative-bin >> ] >> >> then simply do: >> >> override_dh_auto_install: >> pkgos-dh_auto_install >> >> and that's it, it will handle the /usr/bin/python{3,}-slugify >> alternative implementations for you. > > That looks very interesting ! > > However, I have to say I'm a bit reluctant to make the package depend on a > supplementary Build-Dependency only in order to prettify debian/rules.
You don't have to do that. You can open pkgos-dh_auto_install, see what it does, and pickup ideas there. It's only 10 lines of shell scripts, and you probably don't even need everything that's inside. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
