[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#336987: acknowledged by developer (Closing already fixed bugs)

[Josh Triplett]

close 336987
fixed 336987 1:1.99-1
thanks

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:09:08PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> reopen 336987
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:48:05PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > #336987: shell variables should always be a valid completion when syntactically valid,
> > which was filed against the bash-completion package.
> > 
> > It has been marked as closed by one of the developers, namely
> > dapal at debian.org.
> > 
> > You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly,
> > in case you haven't already. If not, please contact them directly.
> 
> I just tested 1:1.99-1, and this does not appear fixed.  "ls $H[tab]"
> does not complete to "ls $HOME", and the same goes for various other
> commands.

Turns out I ran into 648319, and bash-completion hadn't actually loaded
at all.  After manually loading it from
/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion, I can confirm that this bug
appears fixed.

I've also raised the severity of 648319, since it breaks the standard
user configuration that bash-completion recommended for years, that bash
has shipped in /etc/skel/.bashrc for years, and that numerous people
will thus have in ~/.bashrc .

- Josh Triplett