Debian Bug report logs - #587765
bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion.d/* should probably move to /usr/share

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Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>

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

Subject: bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion.d/* should probably move to /usr/share

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:48:50 +0900

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.2-2
Severity: minor

Hi,

while updating the bash-completion package I saw lots of messages like

  Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh ...

on the terminal.  Looking at these files it does not look like they are
intended to be modified for regular use.  Is there any reason why the
files in /etc/bash_completion.d/* are not located in
/usr/share/bash-completion (or similar)?

Just for reference: zsh stores the scripts related to completion in
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion.

Regards,
Ansgar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          4.1-3      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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Message #8 received at 587765@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>

Cc: 587765@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#587765: bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion.d/* should probably move to /usr/share

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:39:33 +0200

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tags 587765 confirmed upstream
user bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
usertag 587765 target-2.0
thanks

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:48:50 +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> Hi,

Hello Ansgar,

> while updating the bash-completion package I saw lots of messages like
> 
>   Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh ...
> 
> on the terminal.  Looking at these files it does not look like they are
> intended to be modified for regular use.  Is there any reason why the
> files in /etc/bash_completion.d/* are not located in
> /usr/share/bash-completion (or similar)?

Historical reasons mainly. We know the issue, and moving completions from /etc/
to /usr/share/ is one of the objectives for bash-completion 2.0 (upstream).

/etc/bash_completion.d/ will probably be kept for compatibility, at least
until 3.0, and bugs will be filed to packages installing completions there in
the meanwhile.
This is also one of the reasons why I wrote dh_bash-completion, so that
packagers don't have to care where completions are kept.

Kindly,
David

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