Debian Bug report logs - #478659
bash-completion: side-by-side comparison in upgrade process doesn't return

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "sami sami" <zepard@gmail.com>

To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bash-completion: side-by-side comparison in upgrade process doesn't return

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:03:55 +0200

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Package: bash-completion
Version: 20060301-4
Severity: normal

- Upgrading bash-completion hangs (100% CPU use) and doesn't return when
invoking side-by-side comparison with existing conffile, I finally stop it
with ctl+c and installed it without side-by-side comparison.
- "classical" comparison hangs too but works fine.

ps: can't reproduce it until now.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-2      The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  ucf                           3.006      Update Configuration File:
preserv

bash-completion recommends no packages.

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Message #14 received at 478659-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: 478659-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: sami sami <zepard@gmail.com>, Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: bash-completion: side-by-side comparison in upgrade process doesn't return

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:30:08 +0200

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tags 478659 unreproducible
severity 478659 minor
thanks

Hi Sami,

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:03:55 +0200, sami sami wrote:

> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20060301-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> - Upgrading bash-completion hangs (100% CPU use) and doesn't return when
> invoking side-by-side comparison with existing conffile, I finally stop it
> with ctl+c and installed it without side-by-side comparison.
> - "classical" comparison hangs too but works fine.

This seems like a bug in the diff tool you're using, not a bash-completion one.
In fact, I can't actually reproduce it.

Would you please give use more info? Can you still reproduce it?

Thanks,
David

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Message #19 received at 478659@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 478659@bugs.debian.org, 478659-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Side-by-side is ucf bug; diff should only be shown when necessary

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:39:25 +0200

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# As stated in #486702, confirmed by David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
tags 478659 -reproducible
tags 478659 +confirmed
# #486702 has been reassigned to ucf for fixing, so 478659 has to wait
block 478659 by 486702
# And now: Why do we prompt at all? The file was not modified by the
# user
clone 486702 -1
reassign -1 bash-completion
retitle -1 bash-completion should not show diff if /etc/bash_completion is unmodified
# See policy E.1. Automatic handling of configuration files by `dpkg'
# bash-completion should behave similar, because *every* user will see
# this and will spend some time figuring out what's going on, and it
# will complicate automated/mass installs
severity -1 important
# Btw. a NEWS.Debian file is quite fine, will be shown by
# apt-listchanges etc.
thanks robot

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