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

[David Paleino]

On Friday 08 January 2010 21:15:29, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-01-08 20:47 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan  8, 2010 at 20:23:59 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> >> reassign 564254 bash-completion
> >> retitle 564254 add proper Conflicts: with older bash versions
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> On Friday 08 January 2010 19:46:44, David Paleino wrote:
> >> > reassign 564254 bash
> >> > retitle 564254 shouldn't ship bash_completion
> >> > thanks
> >>
> >> bash-completion has proper Replaces/Depends, but it's missing also a
> >> Conflicts on older bash versions, which I believe is needed. Going to
> >> fix it, and sorry for the mess!
> >
> > Why do you think Conflicts are needed?  I'm pretty sure Conflicts would
> > be wrong.
> 
> Yes, and it would not even help.  The right thing¹ is to make the
> Replaces unversioned, AFAICS.

Why? :)

> That's because /etc/bash_completion had
> been a conffile in old bash versions and thus can still linger around if
> bash has been upgraded to 47.11.08-15.
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
Strange version number :)

> Unversioned Replaces are not pretty, but I don't see a better idea.

I won't put a Replaces: bash, that's pretty weird.

Instead, I'm thinking about downgrading it, and not fixing it at all (and 
probably closing it)

$ rmadison bash
      bash |  3.1dfsg-8 |     etch-m68k | source, m68k
      bash |  3.1dfsg-8 |     oldstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, [..]
      bash |      3.2-4 |        stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, [..]
      bash |      4.0-7 |       testing | source, amd64, armel, hppa, [..]
      bash |      4.1-1 |      unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, [..]
$

The only version of bash having bash_completion is in oldstable.
I haven't received any similar bug report for all this time, maybe this 
happened to Kurt for some strange event?

Totally run out of ideas,
David

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