Debian Bug report logs - #593835
bash-completion: non optional by being in /etc/profile.d

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

From: Tim Connors <reportbug@rather.puzzling.org>

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

Subject: bash-completion: non optional by being in /etc/profile.d

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:55:17 +1000

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

By placing a script in /etc/profile.d/, setting up of bash-completion
becomes completely non-optional.  Previously, it was up to the user to
source /etc/bash_completion, but now it is not.

If a user has their own copy of ~/.bash_completion that they'd rather
use instead, you end up in an infinite loop at login time, and that
user has no ability to disable the sourcing of the system wide
bash-completion scripts that lead to this inifinite loop.


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

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

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.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 593835@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

To: 593835@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Tim Connors <reportbug@rather.puzzling.org>

Subject: Re: bash-completion: non optional by being in /etc/profile.d

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:18:04 -0500

Hi,

Tim Connors wrote:

> By placing a script in /etc/profile.d/, setting up of bash-completion
> becomes completely non-optional.  Previously, it was up to the user to
> source /etc/bash_completion, but now it is not.

Yep.

Even worse, it's confusing.  Files in /etc/profile.d are only sourced
for login shells; a typical xterm opens a non-login shell.  A more
appropriate way to use bash_completion is to check in .bashrc if the
current shell is interactive and if so source an appropriate file.

Perhaps the relevant shell fragment should go in /etc/skel/.bashrc
instead.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

Message #15 received at 593835@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch@gmail.com>

To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 593835@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#593835: bash-completion: non optional by being in /etc/profile.d

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:28:33 +0200

Le 04/07/2011 23:18, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Tim Connors wrote:
> 
>> By placing a script in /etc/profile.d/, setting up of bash-completion
>> becomes completely non-optional.  Previously, it was up to the user to
>> source /etc/bash_completion, but now it is not.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> Even worse, it's confusing.  Files in /etc/profile.d are only sourced
> for login shells;
Maybe on Debian-based distributions, but not on Redhat-based ones, which
is even more confusing :)
-- 
BOFH excuse #64:

CPU needs recalibration

Message #20 received at 593835@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 593835@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#593835: Bug#593835: bash-completion: non optional by being in /etc/profile.d

Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:40:20 +0300

The profile.d script in bash-completion 1.3 checks whether programmable
completion is enabled and does not load bash_completion if it's not.

Additionally, in git there's now a config file hook in it that makes it
easier to disable bash_completion on per user basis:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=525d6e7

Message #27 received at 593835-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: 593835-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#593835: fixed in bash-completion 1:1.90-1

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:17:12 +0000

Source: bash-completion
Source-Version: 1:1.90-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bash-completion, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bash-completion_1.90-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_1.90-1.debian.tar.gz
bash-completion_1.90-1.dsc
  to main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_1.90-1.dsc
bash-completion_1.90-1_all.deb
  to main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_1.90-1_all.deb
bash-completion_1.90.orig.tar.bz2
  to main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_1.90.orig.tar.bz2



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 593835@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> (supplier of updated bash-completion package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:03:51 +0100
Source: bash-completion
Binary: bash-completion
Architecture: source all
Version: 1:1.90-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>
Description: 
 bash-completion - programmable completion for the bash shell
Closes: 577933 593835 604393 615134 618734 619014 622383 623680 625234 642526
Changes: 
 bash-completion (1:1.90-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * bash-completion 2 preview: dynamic loading of completions
     - optionally fallback to generic file completion if _filedir
       returns nothing (Closes: #619014, LP: #533985)
     - various fixes (Closes: #622383)
     - apt: add 'download' to subcommands (Closes: #625234, LP: #720541)
     - aptitude: add 'versions' command (Closes: #604393)
     - dpkg-query: use the 'dpkg' completion (Closes: #642526)
     - lintian: remove --unpack-level (Closes: #623680)
     - rrdtool: complete filenames after commands (Closes: #577933)
     - provide profile.d hook for per user disabling of bash_completion
       (Closes: #593835)
     - mutt: support tildes when recursively sourcing muttrc files
       (Closes: #615134)
     - tar: improve tar *[cr]*f completions (Closes: #618734)
   * More checks in update-bash-completion: avoid unnecessary
     sourcing of completion if symlink already exists
   * Add message for users before they report a bug (debian/bug-presubj),
     I'm kind of fed-up with bugs caused by acroread.sh :/
   * Removed patches merged upstream
   * Drop trigger-based completion loading
   * Standards-Version bump to 3.9.2, no changes needed
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