Bug#803329: pulseaudio: Bash completion files provided by wrong package

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 9:20 PM Kevin Locke <kevin at kevinlocke.name> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 08:55 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> >> What problem does this cause? Or what benefits does it cause to use
> >> the correct package? I don't really want to complicate the packaging.
> >
> > Anyway, here's another reason: it's possible to install pulseaudio-utils
> > without installing pulseaudio.
>
> I just ran into this issue as you described.  I have pulseaudio-utils
> installed, but not pulseaudio (because I am using PipeWire as a
> PulseAudio substitute[1]).
>
> I sympathize with your desire to avoid complicating the packaging.
> Splitting the completion file looks non-trivial.  Might I suggest
> shipping a copy of the completion file in the pulseaudio package as
> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pulseaudio and a copy in the
> pulseaudio-utils package as /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pacmd
> with symlinks for the other commands provided by that package?  This way
> a completion for each command is shipped in the same package.  The 15kB
> of duplicated data seems reasonable, if not ideal, to avoid divergence
> from upstream, or the packaging work of creating a -common package just
> for completions.


This is not really needed. pulseaudio already depends on pulseaudio-utils.
I would accept a patch moving the completion files to the pulseaudio-utils
package.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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