Hello again, At least the exact issue I reported was corrected in 3.0-17, namely by the patch to wcontinued.dpatch (mmm, patch to a patch):
* debian/patches/wcontinued.dpatch: Update, fixing hangs in bash_completion (Junichi Uekawa). Closes: #318301. Not sure if it covers all the points raised by the various reporters of this issue though... :-) -- Michael `Wumpus' Zinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>