[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#623880: Bug#623880: Completions for "man" not made available

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:00:53AM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> tags 623880 confirmed
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:31:41 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > With the experimental bash-completion, I don't seem to have completions
> > for "man" anymore.  Not sure what other completions I've lost.
> 
> ACK.
> 
> Quick workaround:
> 
>   ln -s /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/man /var/lib/bash-completion/
> 
> In the meanwhile, I'll add man-db, and other missing completions, to a
> "whitelist", so that they always get loaded. At least I don't introduce
> regressions :)

That doesn't make sense; man-db provides a command "man", so shoudn't
that cause bash-completion to provide the completions for "man"?

- Josh Triplett