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Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2017-10-10 22:03:44 +0200:
> On 10/10/2017 01:16 PM, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
> > Regardless, given that this is not functionality currently> available for setuptools, distutils or pbr it would seem
> > that this functionality (or another applicable workaround)
> > would have to be carried by Debian packaging until such
> > time that such a facility exists in the python tooling.
> 
> We don't control setuptools/distutils directly. The only thing we
> control is PBR. So my proposal is:
> 
> 1/ Design a new config_files directive in setup.cfg and patch PBR so
> that it understands it.

We are doing other work to make pbr have *fewer* features. I'm not sure
this is the sort of direction we would want to go, although I'm not
voting -2 right now.

I still think we should just be looking at these files as sample
data and not active configuration files when we put them into the sdist
or wheel.

Doug

> 
> Considering the python module named foo, this could end up like this:
> 
> [files]
> config_files_dest = PYBASE/foo
> config_files = foo.cfg
> 
> then PYBASE would be expanded to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages in the
> case of Debian + Python 2.7.
> 
> or, as another example:
> 
> [files]
> config_files_dest = foo
> config_files = foo.cfg
> 
> then foo.cfg would end up in /usr/share/foo/foo.cfg unless the env var
> OSLO_CONFIG_FILES_DEST is set (for example to /usr/share/foo-common, or
> to /etc/foo). I don't really mind whatever is decided for the
> non-packaging use case (ie: pip install ?).
> 
> 2/ Make PBR to read the destination path from something configurable at
> a packaging level, that would overwrite the default behavior, so that we
> could have whatever the package maintainer decides.
> 
> 3/ When the new PBR release has the new feature, let individual packages
> use the new config_files directive that would simply list the config
> files with the preselected destination.
> 
> Does this seem a good plan? Please comment on the above.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>