Debian Bug report logs - #685223
does not properly expand with tar long options

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

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

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

Subject: does not properly expand with tar long options

Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:45:45 +0200

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.0-1
Severity: normal

tar --extract --file tarfi<TAB> does not work even if a tarfile.tar is
present in the current directory. On the other hand, tar xf tarfi<TAB>
works. Looks like long option processing was omitted when the
completion rules for tar were written.

Greetings
Marc

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Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.5.1-zgws1 (SMP w/6 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.2-5
ii  dpkg  1.16.8

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Message #10 received at 685223@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: 685223@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#685223: does not properly expand with tar long options

Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:26:32 +0200

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:04:30PM +0400, Igor Murzov wrote:
> > tar --extract --file tarfi<TAB> does not work even if a tarfile.tar is
> > present in the current directory. On the other hand, tar xf tarfi<TAB>
> > works. Looks like long option processing was omitted when the
> > completion rules for tar were written.
> 
> Handling long options is not yet implemented for tar.

I reckoned so. This is, however, a regression from older versions of
bash since this worked earlier. Is there any way to revert to the old
behavior?

Greetings
Marc

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Message #15 received at 685223-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: 685223-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: does not properly expand with tar long options

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:56:09 +1000

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Version: 1:2.1-4.3

On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:45:45 +0200 Marc Haber wrote:

> tar --extract --file tarfi<TAB> does not work

Looks like this is fixed in buster at least.

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pabs

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