[R-sig-Debian] Configuration problem installing backport to jessie

[Johannes Ranke]

Am Freitag, 3. März 2017, 09:06:07 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On 3 March 2017 at 08:51, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> | "Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation" points to a packaging
> | problem, as I have not touched anything in this installation. Indeed,
> | there is no file /etc/bash_completion.d/R in the system.
> 
> The default location for these files changed, I finally complied.
> 
> But nobody tests this for backports -- so if you or Jim could cook up one or
> two changes to the postinst etc files (ie /var/lib/dpkg/info/r-base-core.p*
> once installed) it would help for your case.

Why postinst? We already have two places where this is dealt with, in 
debian/rules (dh_bash-completion) and in debian/r-base-core.maintscript.

Before I think about doing something in a third script, I would like to 
understand how these two interact.

Johannes