[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#776954: lintian: warn about /etc/bash_completion.d

[Christoph Egger]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Severity: normal

Hi!

Maybe it's time for lintian to warn about the old bash-completion
location -- if only to get a more consistent location (and consistency
with other linuxes which also seem to use the /usr/share
location). Quoting README.Debian:

> bash-completion for Debian
> --------------------------
> 
>  Completions are kept in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions.
> 
>  /etc/bash_completion.d/ is being kept for compatibility reasons; but will
>  disappear in future. If you're a package maintainer, you're encouraged to
>  use dh_bash-completion(1), which will take care of installing third-party
>  completions into the appropriate directory.
> 
>  -- David Paleino <dapal at debian.org>  Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:33:19 +0200

As the old location seems to still be quite popular probably a
low-priority tag is the right thing for now

  Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.24.90.20141023-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-7+b2
ii  diffstat                       1.58-1
ii  file                           1:5.20-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.3-2
ii  hardening-includes             2.6
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b2
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.39-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.37-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.17.23
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.195-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.03-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.33-2+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1.1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.11-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.64-1
ii  man-db                         2.7.0.2-5
ii  patchutils                     0.3.3-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.1-4
ii  t1utils                        1.38-3+b1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl             <none>
ii  perl                            5.20.1-4
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.1-4

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.17.23
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-1+b3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  libyaml-perl           1.13-1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

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