Thanks for digging and giving me all the details! The completion file is still part of the package but a recent change in setup.py is preventing its installation.
I will be fixing this issue in the next release. Thanks! Julien On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 6:39 PM Gabriel F. T. Gomes < gabr...@inconstante.net.br> wrote: > On 28 Dec 2018, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote: > > Shirish, > > Thanks for the report and for reassigning the bug against ifupdown2. > > Julien, > > Shirish and I investigated a problem he found with bash-completion > (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup was missing), and we > noticed that the problem occurs after an upgrade of ifupdown2 (from > version 2_1.0~git20170314-1 to version 1.2.2-1). > > In order to reproduce it, you may follow the following steps > (bash-completion must be installed): > > >Here are the steps to reproduce it: > > > >1. Install ifupdown2 version (ifupdown2_1.0~git20170314-1_all.deb) > > > > # dpkg -i ifupdown2_1.0~git20170314-1_all.deb > > > >2. Check that it installs files under /usr/share/bash-completion > > > > # dpkg --search /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > diversion by ifupdown2 from: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > diversion by ifupdown2 to: > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup.disabled > > ifupdown2, bash-completion: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > > >3. See that ifup is actually there: > > > > # ls /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > > >4. Upgrade ifupdown2: > > > > # aptitude upgrade ifupdown2 > > > >5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 (then see that the file is missing): > > > > # dpkg --search /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > diversion by ifupdown2 from: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > diversion by ifupdown2 to: > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup.disabled > > bash-completion: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > > > # ls /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup > > ls: cannot access '/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ifup': No > such file or directory > > I think that this may be a problem with ifupdown2, rather than with > bash-completion, so I suggested that this bug be reassigned against > ifupdown2. > > Apparently, ifupdown2 used to ship the completion file for ifup, but it > no longer does it (which is great in my opinion, because it removes the > conflict with bash-completion). However, I don't know why, after the > update, bash-completion is unable to install the completion file for > ifup. There must be something in apt blocking it to do so. >
