[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#366899: bash completion acts weird on dpkg-source

[Frank Küster]

David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm tagging this bug as "wontfix" (though it exists) because both of you are
> using an incorrect dpkg-source syntax.
>
> $ dpkg-source -h
> Usage: dpkg-source [<option> ...] <command>
>
> Commands:
>   -x <filename>.dsc [<output-dir>]
>                            extract source package.
> [..]
> $
>
> What you're trying to do is using "/usr" (or "trunk") as output directories,
> while dpkg-source (and its completion), "correctly" thinks they're Debian
> Source Packages (and that's why it adds a space at the end -- "trunk " and not
> "trunk/"; "/usr " and not "/usr/").

No, that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to unpack a dsc that is
in a different directory:

dpkg-source -x some/where/else/whatever.dsc

But that is hard to type, because I have to type

dpkg-so TAB -x so TAB BKSP /wh TAB BKSP /e TAB BKSP /wh TAB

instead of

dpkg-so TAB -x so TAB wh TAB e TAB wh TAB

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)