[Python-apps-team] Bug#802923: mercurial-common: Rename of bash-completion file broke completion autoloading mechanism.

[Javi Merino]

Hi Oleksandr,

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 09:38:07AM +0200, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> Package: mercurial-common
> Version: 3.5.2-1
> Severity: normal
> New version move
> 
>   /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hg
> 
> to:
> 
>   /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mercurial
> 
> Newer bash-completion project moved to autoloading on demand schema with
> "completion -D" trick.
> 
> This means that completion file only loaded during first time pressing TAB on
> "hg ... TAB" expression in interactive session.
> 
> As for now we have no "hg" completion it wasn't loaded. As a trick I type:
> 
>   $ mercurial cloTAB
> 
> and:
> 
>   complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _hg hg \
>       || complete -o default -o nospace -F _hg hg
> 
> from /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mercurial, loaded and starting
> from that time I able to use completion for hg.
> 
> I don't understand reason for such renames even if look to
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799052

Isn't this the same as https://bugs.debian.org/801079 ?

reportbug says that you're still using 3.5.2-1, is this fixed in 3.5.2-2?

Cheers,
Javi