On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:46:53AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-03-17 07:04, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >Per previous discussion on this list, I'm planning on retiring the > >separate packaging of Bash completion scripts in the packages I > >maintain, and folding the files into the main package. I can't find any > >documentation that'll hold my hand through that process, so can somebody > >with the relevant arcane knowledege check my understanding of what's > >necessary? > > > >Taking git-completion as an example, where I'm moving all the contents > >from that package into the main git package: > > > >- For the first release that obsoletes git-completion: > > > > - Create the main git package in such a way that it contains the files > > that would previously have been in git-completion. > > > > - Create a dummy git-completion package that: > > Simpler: > > git_OBSOLETES="git-completion" > > Just leave this in indefinitely.
Ah, handy! One thing that's missing, which I suspect is a bug in Cygport: I'd expect the git-completion package produced after adding that would have a category of "_obsolete", but I needed to define git_completion_CATEGORY for that to happen.
