Debian Bug report logs - #842228
bash-completion: complete package versions with apt-get install

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

From: Jerome Reybert <jreybert@gmail.com>

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

Subject: bash-completion: complete package versions with apt-get install

Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:01:34 +0200

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Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

apt-get provides a way to install a given package version:
 $ apt-get install package=version

But bash-completion does not handle the completion for these versions. So, if
you do not know the exact version string of your package, you must search it
through apt-cache policy or apt-cache showpkg in a first time.

This patch provides the following behaviour:
 $ apt-get install package=<tab>
will propose the existing versions for package.

It currently relies on apt-cache showpkg syntax, which is quite verbose. Maybe
it would be safer to rely on apt-cache policy, or if you know any other way to
get neat list of package versions.

Jérôme



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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                          4.1-3      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at 640217@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

To: 640217@bugs.debian.org, Jerome Reybert <jreybert@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: bash-completion: complete package versions with apt-get install

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:01:10 -0400

Control: reassign -1 apt 1.3.1

I'm reassigning this to apt since apt itself provides the bash
completions as of apt 1.3~exp2.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Message #21 received at 640217@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>, 640217@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#640217: bash-completion: complete package versions with apt-get install

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:27:49 +0200

Control: reassign -1 bash-completion
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 apt

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 07:01:10PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 apt 1.3.1
> 
> I'm reassigning this to apt since apt itself provides the bash
> completions as of apt 1.3~exp2.

No no, we only provide the 'apt' bash completion, not any other
command - because there was basically no reaction from anyone
responsible for bash completions to the inclusion request.

That said, we could probably take them over, but currently,
this needs to be fixed in both apt-get and apt completions,
which means both packages.

-- 
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Message #34 received at 842228@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

To: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>, 640217@bugs.debian.org, 842228@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#640217: bash-completion: complete package versions with apt-get install

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:31:30 -0400

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> That said, we could probably take them over, but currently,
> this needs to be fixed in both apt-get and apt completions,
> which means both packages.

Yes, I had been thinking about filing a separate bug to move those
completions to the apt source.

Jeremy

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