[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#491457: can't shake bash_completion

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

> I ended up manually removing bash_completion and reinstalling both bash
> and bash_completion so can't test this now.

I can.
$ grep /etc/bash_completion /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.list:/etc/bash_completion

I then tried to remove both packages ***dumb***, as that is $SHELL on
my system... OK, I recovered with dpkg -i ...bash.deb.

Now all back in order, grep finds no matches.

But I don't use it anyway, so
# dpkg-purge bash-completion
# apt-get dselect-upgrade
# apt-get dist-upgrade
which then tires to install it again.