[Patch] fedora packaging issue

[Neal Becker]

Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 23:33 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > This little patch to i18n.py will let locale files be moved to
>> > /usr/share/locale and hg will still find them.
>> 
>> By the way, the Debian guys are just patching Mercurial when building
>> their packages:
>> 
>>   http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/python-
apps/packages/mercurial/trunk/debian/patches/deb_specific__install-mo-
fhs.patch?view=markup
>> 
>> They also patch setup.py to not copy the .mo files -- I guess they copy
>> them in some other step? I think we want to keep setup.py as it is since
>> people do sometimes install Mercurial to a custom location.
>> 
>> Should we then include half of their patch?
> 
> Probably.
> 

I like my patch.  The only thing I'd change is not hardcode /usr/share/.  
Should be a setup.py option IMO.