[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#506973: bash-completion: soft link completion is broken

[Noah Slater]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal

Bash completion fails to account for soft links properly:

  nslater at mahora: ~ $ mkdir -p dir-a/dir-b
  nslater at mahora: ~ $ ln -s dir-a/dir-b dir-c
  nslater at mahora: ~ $ touch doc-a
  nslater at mahora: ~ $ touch doc-b
  nslater at mahora: ~ $ cd dir-c
  nslater at mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-
  doc-a doc-b
  nslater at mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-a
  cat: ../doc-a: No such file or directory
  nslater at mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-ab
  cat: ../doc-b: No such file or directory

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.1-bytemark-uml
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-4      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater