[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#706502: bash-completion: Stray "Invalid regular expression" error

[Dan Greene]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.0-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Typing

apt-get remove man[

and then pressing TAB results in the following error message appearing:
grep-status: Invalid regular expression

Note that this bug does not happen if you instead type

apt-get install man[

(In case you're wondering: I discovered this by accident: While
experimenting I tried typing apt-get -s remove manp<TAB> to see what would
happen if I removed the manpage package, but I accidentally typed '[' instead
of 'p', at which point this bug was triggered.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.2+dfsg-1
ii  dpkg  1.16.10

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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