[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#514377: assumes .gz files can't be concatenated

[Robert Millan]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal

bash-completion assumes that you'll never want to concatenate data to a
gzipped file, but there are situations in which this can be useful, for
example, this command:

  echo some-file | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >> initrd.gz

effectively adds 'some-file' to initrd.gz, but bash-completion won't list
initrd.gz as an option.

This can even lead one to think the file isn't there!  It got me puzzled
for a while trying to figure out why the D-I build system wasn't producing
it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.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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