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[Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This patch set makes providers more customizable wrt where the data they care
about is laid out on the filesystem.

This allows us to:
- ship executable files in in /usr/lib/$provider/
- ship data files in /usr/share/$provider/data
- ship jobs files in /usr/share/$provider/jobs
- ship whitelists files in /usr/share/$provider/whitelists
- ship translations in /usr/share/locale/LC_MESSAGES/$language/$provider.mo

Jobs and whitelists are not customizable but we can now point the base location
at /usr/share/$provider and take advantage of implicit values for jobs_dir and
whitelists_dir

Locale data is actually a bit special as we can just point it to
/usr/share/locale and the rest will be done by gettext. By having this property
we can build local translation files and use it in practice when we use
`manage.py develop` on a provider.

Tell me if you think I should add more tests or if I should make jobs/whitelits
explicit (and perhaps remove all the implicitness from Provider1 entirely,
moving all of the defaults to Provider1Definition.

This is also tracked as:
https://code.launchpad.net/~zkrynicki/checkbox/better-provider/+merge/208865