package python-coverage
outlook 726255 The name ‘/usr/bin/coverage’ is too broad for so specific a tool.
tags 726255 + wontfix
thanks
On 16-Oct-2013, Ben Finney wrote:
> I'm glad we discussed this. I haven't seen a convincing argument that
> overrides the consensus here that a Python-specific prog
On 10/16/2013 02:05 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Thomas Goirand writes:
>
>> On 10/15/2013 06:21 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
>>> What sort of upstream "source code" would be using the /usr/bin
>>> wrapper at all? (I ask this question without prejudice; I can
>>> obviously imagine some ways this might
Thomas Goirand writes:
> On 10/16/2013 07:32 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Patching upstream's assumptions of command names is a feature of the
> > landscape for Debian packagers. I don't consider that a reason to
> > presume ‘/usr/bin/coverage’ on Debian should refer to a
> > Python-specific tool.
>
Tristan Seligmann writes:
> Does this really invoke /usr/bin/coverage, as opposed to just
> importing the coverage module (I'm not familiar with testrepository)?
> I would have expected most Python tools to just import the module,
> rather than spawning the wrapper as an external process, hence m
Thomas Goirand writes:
> On 10/15/2013 06:21 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> > What sort of upstream "source code" would be using the /usr/bin
> > wrapper at all? (I ask this question without prejudice; I can
> > obviously imagine some ways this might happen, but I'm more
> > interested in the act
Thomas Goirand writes:
> On 10/15/2013 06:21 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> > What sort of upstream "source code" would be using the /usr/bin
> > wrapper at all? (I ask this question without prejudice; I can
> > obviously imagine some ways this might happen, but I'm more
> > interested in the act
On 10/16/2013 07:32 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Nearly all OpenStack projects are using testrepository. All of them
>> are using python-coverage.
>
> That sounds like an excellent central point to make the command name
> parameterisable: fix it in one place to match the Debian
> ‘python-coverage’ pac
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