Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 02/08/14 12:23, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El mar, 29-07-2014 a las 21:22 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
>> Dnia 2014-07-29, o godz. 14:06:18
>> Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>
>>> Would like to ask for action about how to finally handle bash-completion
>>> on Gentoo. Looks like we are using a different approach as upstream to
>>> handle completions now, there was a try (one year ago) to try to switch
>>> to upstream style but seems that the revision implementing that was
>>> later dropped due some arguments.
>> Just to be clear, the arguments were not due to new bash-completion
>> itself but due to lack of completeness and documentation. If I recall
>> correctly, it was reverted simply because nobody was willing to do
>> the remaining work and we had no real documentation for the new system.
>> In other words, users upgraded, completions stopped working and didn't
>> know why or how to proceed.
>>
>> I don't know if the Council needs to say anything here. It's just
>> a matter of doing the work.
>>
> Yeah, I have seen new comments in relevant bug report and looks like
> that was the case. Sorry for the misunderstanding. There is no need to
> include it in agenda then
>
>

Notably, there is no distribution specific documentation for the
upstream handling
of bash-completion files in any distribution I've seen, it's just a
upstream package,
with it's own documentation
I wouldn't even know what to put into the documentation, that wouldn't
be straight
copy'n'paste from man pages, files in /usr/share/doc, ...

So I guess it's more about the eselect module, and allowing it to move
specific
bash-completion files to temporary directory, making them out-of-scope for
the bash-completion autoloader (yes, there is an autoloader) that mimics
the outcome of putting specific bash-completion files to INSTALL_MASK

So, yeah, I don't know how council would be able to help here... Other than
request people to write the new eselect module...

- Samuli