Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.0-3 Severity: important Tags: patch
PROBLEM By installing bash completion package, there are serious environment clashes. The function in the package do not have distinct prefixes to differentiate them from the user's aliases and functions; so there will be an inevitable clash at some point. It happened in my case: I have several those functions defined (quote, dequote, have, _expand, _services, _alias, _export, _umount, _mount, _man, _tar, _cvs, _rsync, _make, _cd, _screen) from years of use. The choice of private functions/aliases to underscore(_) prefix was natural in order to differentiate them from system commands. RELATED The Emacs packages have had exactly the same problems and solutions. In Emacs, all the functions occupy the same global name space; just like Bash aliases and functions do. The make the packages unique, each one of them chose to use a unique prefix. This can be seen e.g. in the Gnus newsreader package, which uses prefix gnus-* for functions, and message.el that uses message-* respectively. Likewise for all Emacs packages. SUGGESTION The problem can be solved by using a common prefix for all functions. The provided git patches will convert everything to start with prefix: _bc_* for "bash completion". THE PATCHES As there are about 360 individual patch sets, please merge in the changes from repository: git remote add jaalto git://git.cante.net/dev/bash-completion git pull jaalto Branch to merge: naming-changes-all NOTES I've done my best to make the correct replacements (all by hand; eye balling; no scripts). As this is the starting point for the dev team, please continue and correct any mistakes you see as needed. I hope, the patches provide a good start to make the bash completion package more robust to install. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bash-completion depends on: ii bash 4.0-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell bash-completion recommends no packages. bash-completion suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org