[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#511790: Completion of package names broken

David Paleino d.paleino at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 20:23:42 UTC 2009


Hello Chris,

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:33:29 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Completion of package names seems to be broken at least (!!) when I do  
> the following:
> 
> dpkg -L or dpkg -S does not find base-passwd at all?!

Well, dpkg -S isn't meant to complete on package names. From man dpkg:

              -S, --search filename-search-pattern...
                  Search for a filename from installed packages.

So you should really give a pattern there.

With regard to dpkg -L, you're right, it was completing only on non-essential
packages, fixed in bzr rev1255:

http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/bash-completion/current/revision/1255?

Kindly,
David Paleino

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