Since Debian is about to release, and this is an easy fix, shouldn’t we get
this into testing ASAP? It’s really annoying how much larger this bug makes
log files for a false positive.
The fix has been listed for over a year, can it get added or is it still being
tested?
00-fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch was introduced in
bash-completion v1:2.1-3 as a fix for bug 739835 "filename completion
broken with bash 4.3".
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835
The patch file was originally pulled from Ubuntu, where it was created
to fix two LP bugs:
found 825317 1:2.1-4
thanks
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for reporting this. Actually, this issue is quite old; [1] points
to the corresponding Ubuntu bug. According to this, just removing the
patch fixes this issue, but I'm unsure about the potential downside(s)
doing so and lacking time to check.
All
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.1-4.3
Severity: minor
Bug #825153 (mysterious "*" passwd queries in LDAP) turned out to be the
result of a minor thinko in bash-completion.
The _quote_readline_by_ref() shell function uses "~*" without the tilde
being escaped (like all other instances of
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