On 10/15/2013 02:28 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > package python-coverage > severity 726255 wishlist > thanks > > On 15-Oct-2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> As the way to use python-coverage is to use /usr/bin/coverage > > That is not *the* way; in Debian
There's no Debian way. There's what upstream provides, and what downstream uses. In this case, you don't have a word, unless you can convince both upstream and downstream to change. > this same program is available under > the less-ambiguous name ‘/usr/bin/python-coverage’, which existing > users of this package are using. Please point me at a single example of downstream user of python-coverage that is doing this. > I reject that claim, since the full functionality is available to > users by using a different command name. So this bug report doesn't > fit the “grave” severity definition. > >> Please don't set the severity lower than it is right now. This issue >> *must* be addressed, in one way or another (I'm fine if >> update-alternatives isn't used, though I'm convinced that's the way >> to go). > > Regardless of the merits of this request (I think there is a useful > discussion to be had here), it is clearly not preventing useability of > the package. So I'm re-setting the severity to “wishlist”. It does. This is certainly *not* a wishlist. >> The reason is that python-coverage users (said otherwise: reverse >> dependencies of python-coverage) are expecting to have the package >> providing /usr/bin/coverage, and otherwise fail to build a coverage >> HTML report. I have the case on many of the packages I maintain. > > The work-around, for now, is to patch those invocations to use the > already-provided ‘/usr/bin/python-coverage’ command. No. You can't ask all packages to be fixed one by one, our user to use something debian specific, when only fixing python-coverage can be enough. > If there is a case for this package providing a ‘/usr/bin/coverage’ > command, it will not be because the absence is anything more than a > wishlist request. I don't agree with this view. Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
