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

Mike Crowe mac at mcrowe.com
Wed Apr 20 17:07:00 UTC 2011


On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:43:48 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
>> 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.
 
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:53:31PM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> I fear the release team won't accept non-security-uploads to stable.

Ah yes. I thought that the fact that this one file plainly didn't work
at all was sufficient reason for them to accept it but it appears that
the entire package has to be unusable which is clearly not the
case. :(
 
> However, I can try to provide backports, yes. That seems the best thing I
> can do, with current stable update policies. Would that be ok to you?

I have generated my own package for the squeeze version+patch which
should be fine for the time being.

Thanks.

Mike.





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