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bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

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

From: debian@ginguppin.de

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

Subject: bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:46:18 +0100

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal

completing pathes like ~/foo to /home/username/foo is usually unwanted -- and there seems to be non configuration to disable it gracefully.

see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bash-completion/+bug/324505
the same issue and a proposed patch (simply preventing expansion).

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_DK.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-5      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 521406@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>

To: debian@ginguppin.de, 521406@bugs.debian.org

Cc: bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#521406: bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:46:04 +0200

On Friday 27 March 2009, debian@ginguppin.de wrote:
> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20080705
> Severity: normal
>
> completing pathes like ~/foo to /home/username/foo is usually unwanted --
> and there seems to be non configuration to disable it gracefully.

We had the expansion disabled for a while and it resulted in things breaking, 
so the expansion is back and I don't personally think it's going away any time 
soon.  See for example http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-
completion-devel/2009-February/000973.html

Message #17 received at 521406-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: debian@ginguppin.de

Cc: 521406-done@bugs.debian.org, bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#521406: bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:13:34 +0100

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tags 521406 wontfix
thanks

Hello,

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:46:04 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Friday 27 March 2009, debian@ginguppin.de wrote:
> > Package: bash-completion
> > Version: 20080705
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > completing pathes like ~/foo to /home/username/foo is usually unwanted --
> > and there seems to be non configuration to disable it gracefully.
> 
> We had the expansion disabled for a while and it resulted in things breaking, 
> so the expansion is back and I don't personally think it's going away any
> time soon.  See for example http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-
> completion-devel/2009-February/000973.html

As already explained by Ville, we won't fix this bug, at least in the near
future.

Kindly,
David

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