[Aptitude-devel] Bug#459984: aptitude: adding bash completion

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: close -1


Hi,

2008-01-10 15:57 Daniel Burrows:
>On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:39:41AM +0100, Mathieu GELI <mathieu.geli at gmail.com> was heard to say:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.4.10-1+b2
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Completion seems to be required for some time.
>> Here is a quick patch that should make bash users happy for
>> main options.
>
>  I'm not opposed to the concept, but if I type "aptitude ins<TAB>",
>bash already expands "install".  In fact, it even knows that subsequent
>arguments should be expanded as package names.  This is apparently
>provided by /etc/bash_completion, and it appears to handle a more
>comprehensive set of options.  Moreover, in the bash package it should
>be maintained by people who, unlike me, actually understand bash
>completion, so that seems like a more appropriate place for it to live. :-)

Similar to Daniel Burrows, I would not have been opposed to add this
file originally, but if this file is provided by "bash-completion" and
has been for many years, I don't think that there's much sense to put it
in aptitude 8 years later.

(Besides that, there would be operational problems with aptitude trying
to take over files from other packages).


2011-12-09 05:03 Daniel Hartwig:
>severity 459984 wishlist
>thanks
>
>> Last point : aptitude completion data should I'm my opinion better sit
>> in /etc/bash_completiion.d/ as a single file instead of being stacked
>> in /etc/bash_completiion.
>
>This has been the case for some time:
>
>io:~$ dpkg -L bash-completion | grep aptitude
>/etc/bash_completion.d/aptitude

Different location, but same thing:

  /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/aptitude


>> Anyway here is new version based on the current version in testing which
>> replaces dist-upgrade and upgrade with safe-upgrade and full-upgrade.  I also
>> added etc/bash_completion.d to aptitude.dirs and added ...
>
>The version in bash-completion has supported safe-/full-upgrade for
>some time.

I am quite sure that it's still up-to-date, we didn't change many
command line options and try to not break existing usage.


So closing the report now.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>