[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#740975: filename completion broken with bash 4.3

[Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner]

Ok, thanks, any of the two patches proposed by JuanJo works fine for
me (Debian unstable, GNU bash version 4.3.0(1)-release, patching
bash-completion bash-completion version: 1:2.1-2).

Thanks,
   Jean-Baka

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Paul Brossier <piem at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 739835 patch
> thanks
>
> 06:28 < piem> am i the only one being struck by 741903?
> 06:33 < infinity> piem:
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/169422307/bash-completion_1%3A2.1-2ubuntu3_1%3A2.1-2ubuntu4.diff.gz
> 06:33  * infinity bugs jjo to forward that.
> 06:40 < infinity> piem: You might just want to grab the Ubuntu
> bash-completion deb, it fixes a few bugs, I'll hunt down people to
> forward it all.
> 06:40 < infinity>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/1:2.1-2ubuntu4/+build/5810094
> 06:44 < piem> infinity: nice, thanks
>
> On 03/18/2014 09:17 PM, David Paleino wrote:
>> forcemerge 739835 741479 741860 742071 742054 741903 740975
>> retitle 739835 filename completion broken with bash 4.3
>> severity 739835 important
>> tags 739835 upstream confirmed
>> thanks
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> (sorry for the long list of CC)
>>
>> writing to you because you reported a bug within bash-completion, which is
>> likely caused by the upgrade of bash to 4.3.
>>
>> I've added Ville Skyttä in CC too -- I stopped actively developing
>> bash-completion long ago, and I believe he's now the main upstream developer,
>> so keeping him in the mail loop.
>>
>> Please, from now on, refer to bug #739835 for further posts.
>>
>> Ville: it seems like
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835#15 contains a
>> patch: have you had the chance to look at it? It seems to me that it doesn't
>> solve the problems reported.
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry for not being totally clueless,
>> David
>>
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