Debian Bug report logs - #799545
apt: bash command line completion missing for apt-mark

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

From: Michail Bachmann <michail.bachmann@cms.hu-berlin.de>

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

Subject: apt: bash command line completion missing for apt-mark

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:33:35 +0200

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Package: apt
Version: 1.0.10.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

find attached a bash completion file for apt-mark.

Regards,

Michail Bachmann

-- Package-specific info:

-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2014.3
ii  gnupg                   1.4.19-5
ii  libapt-pkg4.16          1.0.10.2
ii  libc6                   2.19-20
ii  libgcc1                 1:5.2.1-17
ii  libstdc++6              5.2.1-17

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc     <none>
ii  aptitude    0.7.2-1
ii  dpkg-dev    1.18.2
ii  python-apt  1.0.0

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at 799545@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>

To: Michail Bachmann <michail.bachmann@cms.hu-berlin.de>, 799545@bugs.debian.org

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

Subject: Re: Bug#799545: apt: bash command line completion missing for apt-mark

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:45:19 +0200

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Control: reassign -1 bash-completion 1:2.1-4

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 08:33:35AM +0200, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> find attached a bash completion file for apt-mark.

Thanks for the patch, but we don't maintain shell specific completion
files in src:apt ourselves but rely on the specific shell to implement
the completion (You can find a more complete reasoning from me in
#762286).

I am therefore reassigning to bash-completion.

As I noted in the mentioned bug, there are at the very least more apt related
completion bugs, so it looks like the maintainers (which are also upstream as
far as I know) need some help – you might wanna join…


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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Message #21 received at 799545@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

To: 799545@bugs.debian.org

Cc: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>, Michail Bachmann <michail.bachmann@cms.hu-berlin.de>

Subject: Re: Bug#799545: apt: bash command line completion missing for apt-mark

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:58:16 -0400

Control: reassign -1 apt 1.3.1

> Thanks for the patch, but we don't maintain shell specific completion
files in src:apt ourselves but rely on the specific shell to implement
the completion

I believe this is no longer true as of apt 1.3~exp2 so I'm
re-assigning this back to apt.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Message #32 received at 799545@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 799545@bugs.debian.org

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:50:43 +0400

The main apt completion seems to be shipped with the apt package, and
apt-get and apt-cache with bash-completion.

In my opinion it would be best to ship all apt related completions
with the apt package an deprecate/remove them from the bash-completion
package. Please feel free to grab the apt-get and apt-cache
completions from https://github.com/scop/bash-completion and let me
know if/when you do, and I'll remove them from upstream
bash-completion.

There's also completion for apt-build shipped with bash-completion, BTW.

Message #37 received at 799545@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>, 799545@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#799545:

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 18:55:01 +0200

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 10:50:43AM +0400, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> The main apt completion seems to be shipped with the apt package, and
> apt-get and apt-cache with bash-completion.

We really only shipped the apt completion, because nobody at the
bash-completion side was merging it.

> 
> In my opinion it would be best to ship all apt related completions
> with the apt package an deprecate/remove them from the bash-completion
> package. Please feel free to grab the apt-get and apt-cache
> completions from https://github.com/scop/bash-completion and let me
> know if/when you do, and I'll remove them from upstream
> bash-completion.

I'm not sure. This involves some coordination from both sides
with Replaces and Conflicts or stuff.

I don't particularly like merging bash completions, or any completions
for that matter. How many shells will we end up with? We did what we
had to do with apt(8), but I'm not yet convinced that doing this is
the right solution.

> 
> There's also completion for apt-build shipped with bash-completion, BTW.

I suggest you talk to apt-build people about that.

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Message #42 received at 799545@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>, 799545@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#799545:

Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:15:13 +0400

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 10:50:43AM +0400, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> The main apt completion seems to be shipped with the apt package, and
>> apt-get and apt-cache with bash-completion.
>
> We really only shipped the apt completion, because nobody at the
> bash-completion side was merging it.

That's not really too much of a surprise, as our general preference is
to encourage projects to ship their completions themselves, and to
take advantage of general purpose features, functions etc from
bash-completion. And besides, it's been a while since there has been a
Debian/Ubuntu user active in bash-completion upstream
development/maintenance. Nowadays it's basically just me, and I'm a
Fedora user, not a Debian/Ubuntu one, and I don't have that much time
for bash-completion in the first place.

> I don't particularly like merging bash completions, or any completions
> for that matter. How many shells will we end up with?

I'd say max two, bash and zsh. And I gather zsh can use bash
completions so I think you can get away with one.

Conversely, in bash-completion we don't have any active apt* users,
and we have no knowledge what options the tools actually support, and
should preferably support whatever version of apt* is installed on the
end user system. Whereas if the completions where shipped by you in
apt, you know exactly what the options available are and what they do.
I'm fairly certain that the hardcoded option and command lists we have
in bash-completions' apt* completion files are outdated or inaccurate.

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