Hello Vincent, Mark, Ben, Karl, Jens, I just prepared packaging for fio-2.17 and as I added some of the new Python script I again came across the issues the file name ending "*.py" creates within Debian. 1) As per Debian policy files in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin or any of the other bin directory may not have such a file ending. Thus I may not put the files in $PATH. 2) Man or the manpage integration debhelper script do not like this file ending either: […]/usr/share/doc/fio> dpkg -L fio | grep man […] /usr/share/man/py /usr/share/man/py/man1 /usr/share/man/py/man1/fiologparser_hist.1.gz (the section here is complete crap) And… well all ways to rename files *just* prior to the packaging run… are as far as I know… quite ugly – like preparing modified upstream tarball and things like that. Now I wonder whether you would be okay with just removing the "*.py" filename ending from the script and manpage filenames. […]fio-upstream> find -iname "*.py*" | grep -v unit_tests ./tools/fio_latency2csv.py ./tools/fiologparser.py ./tools/hist/fiologparser_hist.py ./tools/hist/fiologparser_hist.py.1 ./tools/hist/half-bins.py This would be the easiest solution for me as a packager, would allow to put scripts into $PATH and I think the "*.py" doesn´t really add much value. Actually the user of such a script can still see whether its a python script by looking at the file. Also for putting things in $PATH it might make sense to add "fio" to the scriptname "half-bins.py" maybe "fio-half-bins.py". I could prepare an upstream patch for that one… if you are okay with the name change. And PS: Any intention to write some manpages for the scripts where they are missing? :) Thank you, -- Martin Steigerwald | Trainer teamix GmbH Südwestpark 43 90449 Nürnberg Tel.: +49 911 30999 55 | Fax: +49 911 30999 99 mail: martin.steigerwald@xxxxxxxxx | web: http://www.teamix.de | blog: http://blog.teamix.de Amtsgericht Nürnberg, HRB 18320 | Geschäftsführer: Oliver Kügow, Richard Müller, Jakob Høholdt teamix Support Hotline: +49 911 30999-112 *** Bitte liken Sie uns auf Facebook: facebook.com/teamix *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
