[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#764800: Bug#764800: spurious function in bash-completion causes >30% performance degradation (and is bug'ed)

[Ville Skyttä]

See comments in bash_completion next to the definition of the
function. Due to its deprecated status it is not likely to be changed
any more, especially in ways that would change its behavior (e.g. the
"type -P" case).

The function is not used by bash-completion itself at all, and 3rd
party completions would be better off migrated to be loaded on demand
-- then they don't need to use this function either (or they can
change to "type" at will if they want to support older bash-completion
versions). More details for 3rd party packages about how to install
completions is in bash-completion's README.