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Can bash-completion be added to by other packages?

Asked by Ken Sharp

Hi, I'm not sure how bash-completion works.

Do all the scripts have to come from the bash-completion package, or can other packages add to what the package installs?
If so, where does it put the config files?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

/etc/bash_completion

Looks complex but that's the file

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#4

Actually, no it didn't.

What I am wondering is if bash-completion has to be edited by the package maintainer, or can, say Wine's maintainer, add a bash-completion to the Wine install script. I'm not sure how the scripts are maintained.

Thanks.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#6

I guess people don't know how it works?

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#8

Surely somebody must be maintaining this package, and hence know how it works?

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#9

As far as I know both is possible:

The package bash_completion delivers the config files for a number of other packages (see http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/all/bash-completion/filelist )

But other packages deliver their own config file to be put under /etc/bash_competion.d/ e.g. http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/all/nanoblogger-extra/filelist

I am not sure if wine is a reasonable package for a bash-completion script. bash-completion is a tool for support of command line actions, and wine is designed to offer a graphical user interface. So what do you want to achieve there?

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#10

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#11

Wine already uses bash_completion.

Will submit a patch.

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) said : 		#12

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680529