[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#529510: Bug#529510: checks for GNUish userland fail on GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/kOpenSolaris, etc

David Paleino d.paleino at gmail.com
Wed May 20 20:14:09 UTC 2009


tags 529510 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hello,

On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:13:12 +0000, Robert Millan wrote:

> The checks for GNUish userland are made unportably by using a hardcoded
> list of uname values.  It should use GNU/* and match other systems like
> GNU/kFreeBSD or GNU/kOpenSolaris.
> 
> Also, the check for sed relies on comparing uname with "Linux" but it's
> actually a userland issue.
> 
> Patch attached.

Thanks, patch applied upstream:

  http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=4fadb6887aa48cb4b835209a2733010f5f94c3cb

I will be preparing a new Debian revision ASAP.

Kindly,
David

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