It seems to me the much easier solution is to just always install
coverage.py into a virtualenv, then we don't have to worry at all about
operating-system politics.

Alex


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> It appears that in Debian, python-coverage provides the wrapper in
> /usr/bin/python-coverage. I tried to push the current maintainer to
> provide /usr/bin/coverage, but he doesn't agree. He believes that
> "coverage" is just too generic to be squatted by the python-coverage
> package.
>
> Robert Colins wrote that he sees it ok-ish if all of the OpenStack
> projects makes it so that we could also use /usr/bin/python-coverage.
> What is the view of others in the project? Could the path be checked,
> and then used, so that it works in every cases? Of course, the goal
> would be to avoid "by hand" patching in debian/patches whenever
> possible, because this is a major pain.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
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