[Bash-completion-devel] lrzip: conflict - bash completion also in package bash-completion

Con Kolivas kernel at kolivas.org
Thu Sep 22 06:22:42 UTC 2011


On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:36:42 Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On 09/20/2011 01:39 AM, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > I'd much rather it stayed part of the bash completion package, but could
> > you possibly use this new one instead
> 
> The one in lrzip seems to have some drawbacks over the one in
> bash-completion and generally doesn't match bash-completion's style, so
> I did not adopt it wholesale.  But -? and -p handling are now in
> bash-completion git, the latter in somewhat more portable fashion than
> in the one included with lrzip.
> 
> > since it appears more complete?
> 
> By the way this highlights the biggest benefit of having completions
> upstream: they have a better chance of being up to date / complete with
> the corresponding software than when they're in bash-completion.  (The
> Fedora 14 version of lrzip I initially wrote the lrzip completion for
> did not have the two above mentioned options.)

Thanks very much. I'll remove the installation of the completion file entirely 
from lrzip and leave it up to the bash completion package.

Regards,
Con
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-ck



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