[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#564254: conflicting /etc/bash_completion

[David Paleino]

On Friday 08 January 2010 21:13:07, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 07:47:45PM +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan  8, 2010 at 20:23:59 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > > reassign 564254 bash-completion
> > > retitle 564254 add proper Conflicts: with older bash versions
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > On Friday 08 January 2010 19:46:44, David Paleino wrote:
> > > > reassign 564254 bash
> > > > retitle 564254 shouldn't ship bash_completion
> > > > thanks
> > >
> > > bash-completion has proper Replaces/Depends, but it's missing also a
> > > Conflicts on older bash versions, which I believe is needed. Going to
> > > fix it, and sorry for the mess!
> >
> > Why do you think Conflicts are needed?  I'm pretty sure Conflicts would
> > be wrong.
> 
> It doesn't have conflicts, just:
> Replaces: bash (<< 3.1dfsg-9)
> Depends: bash (>= 3.1dfsg-9)
> 
> And since bash 4.0-7 still has that file, it's not being replaced.

It really doesn't:

  http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/i386/bash/filelist

As Sven pointed out, that's probably because it was a conffile (and still is 
unfortunately, I should move those out of /etc/ ASAP).

David

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