On 07/01/2015 04:08 AM, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:55:53AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Please don't do this. This is the kind of job to be done by package >> maintainers in distribution, because mostly, Python maintainers wouldn't >> know how to do things correctly. Here we've got a good example: the bash >> completion scripts are now to be installed in >> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions and not in /etc. >> >> As for the general project config files, I often install them in >> /usr/share/<project>-common, and then copy the file in /etc/<project> in >> a postinst, so that the file isn't marked as CONFFILE. >> >> So please don't attempt to do the work of distributions. We then end up >> with config files in /usr/etc (as per what happen with Neutron >> packages), and it's a mess to un-cruft. > > Okay so I take you point no problem, but I'm not running distro packages and I > still want completions. There must be a way to package the file to at least > make it easier to achieve both our goals. > > Right now I have to manually wget the file from git.o.o which isn't really > okay > IMO. > > Could the python package make /usr/share/doc/python-novaclient/tools and ship > it there. That would mean that distribution packaging could just take that > file > and install it in the correct and usful location AND I could just symlink it > and we both win. > > Yours Tony.
The file has nothing to do in /usr/share/doc either. By per the debian policy manual: we shouldn't rely on /usr/share/doc, as it can be removed entirely by the users. /usr/share/python-novaclient could be a place, but really, the correct location is /usr/share/bash-completion/completions, not /etc (btw: that's a new thing, it used to be in /etc, but there's now a lintian warning about it). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
