[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#731567: bash-completion: wtf completion looks for acronym databases at wrong path

Raphaël raphael.droz at gmail.com
Mon Dec 9 11:08:58 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:09:43PM -0500, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 2.0-1
> 
> $ wtf [TAB]
> cut: /usr/share/misc/acronyms*: No such file or directory
> -f
> 
> These databases were moved from /usr/share/misc/acronyms* to 
> /usr/share/games/bsdgames/acronyms* in 2002 for FHS compliance (#144804), 
> but bash-completion still looks at the old path.


this is the path used on Gentoo systems (and maybe others) which is used
as a fallback if the Debian path (used in priority) doesn't exist.

Anyway the `cut` error shouldn't happen (2>/dev/null needed).



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