[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#808520: bash-completion: parameter completion broken on user root

[lopiuh]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.1-4.2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

vanilla testing installation, Root account enabled during installation. Root-account does not have bah-completion on parameters e.g. "apt-get dis[TAB]" is not completed to apt-get dist-upgrade. A user account created during installation does not lack the feature.
Is this a "bug" or a feature?
see
 http://askubuntu.com/questions/142994/bash-completion-doesnt-work-in-root-user
 https://kofler.info/bash_completion-in-ubuntu-15-10/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.3-14+b1
ii  dpkg  1.18.3

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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