[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#564254: Bug#564254: conflicting /etc/bash_completion

[David Paleino]

reassign 564254 bash
retitle 564254 shouldn't ship bash_completion
thanks

On Friday 08 January 2010 19:32:34, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: bash, bash-completion
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,

Hi Kurt,

> I got this on the buildd:
> Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_1%3a1.1-3_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
>  /home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_
> 1%3a1.1-3_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion',
>  which is also in package bash
> 
> On the system:
> excelsior:~# ls -l /etc/bash_completion
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215907 Jul  5  2006 /etc/bash_completion
> excelsior:~# dpkg --search /etc/bash_completion
> bash: /etc/bash_completion
> 
> This is with bash 4.0-7.

This is a problem in the bash package, thus reassigning.

bash-completion was split from the bash package on Fri, 08 Feb 2008, by the 
maintainer of bash:

---8<---
bash-completion (20060301-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Initial release, split out from the bash package.
    The software currently is unsupported upstream.
  * [..]

 -- Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:46:34 +0100
--->8---

That file is arriving from an ancient version of bash (it seems 3.1dfsg-8).
bash-completion has proper Replaces/Depends set in place, so this shouldn't 
have happened.

David

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