[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#623479: bash-completion: p4 completion yields "bash: _get_comp_words_by_ref(): `preprev': unknown argument"

[Mike Crowe]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.2-3
Severity: normal

With the Perforce command line client "p4" and bash-completion installed if I type:

  p4 edit <TAB>

I get the following error:

  bash: _get_comp_words_by_ref(): `preprev': unknown argument

It appears that this has been fixed in
http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=5eead0ebeecf7d3212df3fea9cfe0fa88b6d0274
but the fix didn't make it into squeeze.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          4.1-3      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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