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On 21/11/14 06:12, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> Let's say there's python-xstatic-foo, and libjs-foo in Debian. If the
> directory structure of libjs-foo is very different from xstatic-foo, I
> can address that issue with symlinks within the xstatic package. Just
> changing the BASE_DIR may not be enough, as libjs-foo may have files
> organized in a very different way than in the upstream package for foo.

You can do it without xstatic even more easily, without having to muck
around with symlinks. Django has this STATICFILES_DIRS setting variable,
that you can set, that lets you specify on what URL each static
directory should be available. For instance, I use it currently to work
around the issue with jquery-ui changing directory structure between
versions:

if xstatic.main.XStatic(xstatic.pkg.jquery_ui).version.startswith('1.10.'):
    # The 1.10.x versions already contain the 'ui' directory.
    STATICFILES_DIRS.append(
        ('horizon/lib/jquery-ui',
         xstatic.main.XStatic(xstatic.pkg.jquery_ui).base_dir))
else:
    # Newer versions dropped the directory, add it to keep the path the
same.
    STATICFILES_DIRS.append(
        ('horizon/lib/jquery-ui/ui',
         xstatic.main.XStatic(xstatic.pkg.jquery_ui).base_dir))

But in your Debian package, you can completely drop xstatic and just use
absolute paths to the filesystem explicitly.

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Radomir Dopieralski