Bug#422065: [Debconf-devel] Bug#422065: debconf: completion file contains

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le lundi 12 novembre 2007 à 12:06 +0000, Unric David a écrit :
> I can confirm this bug and it's not related to gdm because the same
> behaviour was observed at xdm.
> 
> User startup scripts (.profile or .bash_profile) are not sourced at X
> login (Xsession) by default so bash-completion is not too. If you load
> them in your ~/.xsession f.E. the described problem shows but only for
> root account in my case.
> 
> I guess the bug lies somewhere in (paranoid) environment settings of
> display managers or Xsession startup scripts for root because bash
> (login shell for root) has no problems with hyphens in function names.

Enabling bash completion in ~/.xsession looks almost like deliberate
breakage to me, and I don't think we need so support such a case.

Cheers,
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