[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#574950: Bug#574950: avahi-browse makes ssh completion very slow on large LANs

[Crestez Dan Leonard]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 19:50 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> merge 551780 574950
> tags 551780 confirmed
> thanks
> 
> On Monday 22 March 2010 13:01:22, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Package: bash-completion
> > Version: 1:1.1-3
> > 
> > I'm running an Ubuntu laptop on a LAN with ~150 devices that announce as
> > workstations, and the avahi-browse command used by /etc/bash-completion
> > takes around 5 seconds to complete. This is quite frustrating if you ssh
> > a lot!
> 
> Kind-of-duplicate of #551780 :)

Bug 568191 also looks like a duplicate:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568191

The first complaint is about messages on stderr but that was fixed in
upstream commit bb8912b0:

https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=bb8912b06ff09f8fed253e7e5b14916e38a48733