Debian Bug report logs - #829528
Please migrate bash-completion file from "bash-completion" package to desktop-file-utils

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

From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

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

Subject: Please migrate bash-completion file from "bash-completion" package to desktop-file-utils

Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 19:38:02 -0700

Package: desktop-file-utils
Version: 0.23-1
Severity: wishlist

The changelog for 0.23-1 mentions:
>   * Do not install bash-completion (already provided by "bash-completion").

This seems the wrong way around.  bash-completion provides completions
for packages that don't provide completions for themselves.[1]  If a
package has its own completion file, ideally bash-completion should stop
providing that completion, and the package should start providing it
(and conflict with bash-completion versions that provided it).

- Josh Triplett

[1] Insert paradox joke here.

Message #10 received at 829528@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, 829528@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#829528: Please migrate bash-completion file from "bash-completion" package to desktop-file-utils

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 11:01:35 +1000

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On Sunday, 3 July 2016 7:38:02 PM AEST Josh Triplett wrote:
> The changelog for 0.23-1 mentions:
> >   * Do not install bash-completion (already provided by
> >   "bash-completion").
> 
> This seems the wrong way around.

Not quite... When I was preparing last upload of "desktop-file-utils"
I've corrected (deprecated) location where bash-completion file was installed 
to -- that's how I found conflict with "bash-completion".
It appears that on most systems "bash-completion" would actually provide 
completion for "desktop-file-utils" so no longer installing completions into 
deprecated location should not change anything.

Also it does not help the matter that available completions for "desktop-
file-utils" are different so one should check which one is better...

I agree that it would be better to ship "desktop-file-utils" completions in 
its own package instead of "bash-completion"...


> bash-completion provides completions
> for packages that don't provide completions for themselves.

Then perhaps this bug should be cloned or re-assigned to "bash-completion" in 
order to drop completions for "desktop-file-utils" so they could be re-
introduced to the latter. "bash-completion" should stop providing those 
completions first, in order to allow "desktop-file-utils" to take over.

-- 
All the best,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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