[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#509584: please enable bash-completion generation

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 at 16:32:43 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> as part of a cross-distribution effort to improve bash-completion, a Gentoo
> developer (CCed) found out that dbus' upstream is providing its own
> bash-completion, passing --enable-bash-completion to ./configure.

Sorry, I'm not going to enable this. The problem is that it uses (and is
part of) dbus-glib, a deprecated D-Bus binding for GLib.

If bash completions for dbus-send, dbus-monitor, etc. were part of src:dbus,
it would be reasonable to enable them; but src:dbus-glib doesn't build a
binary package where they would really make sense, and increasing the
number of packages in the archive that depend on dbus-glib is the wrong
direction to be going anyway.

gdbus(1), in src:glib2.0, is an alternative to dbus-send that does ship
its own bash completions.

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