Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.8-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Performing an 'apt-get purge bash-completion' does not delete the folder /usr/share/bash-completion. Over time, that folder has accumulated what is now cruft, because when that package updates, it does not remove functions deleted in new releases; recently upstream has renamed one of their internal helper functions from 'have' to '_have', and since the cruft files still exist and are being processed, this results in errors because the old function name is no longer being found. An example of this is /usr/share/bash-completion/apt-show-versions, which at some point was removed from package bash-completion; however, since the debian packaging has never deleted it, it is now failing that way. A second example is /usr/share/bash-completion/insserv. There are also other files in that folder that are no longer in upstream, but are not producing that error, such as the script for bzr. The package expects user-defined or third-party bash-completion scripts to be located in /etc/bash-completion.d, so there should never be a need for any non-upstream files in folder /usr/share/bash-completion/completions. As 'extra-credit', it would be nice if there were an apt hook for this package that when upstream was removing a script for a command, to mention that to the user, and prompt to move it to /etc/bash_completion.d or somewhere else. Another idea would be to just send apt mail to user with the file along with a message. -- System Information: Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0.0 (ascii) Release: 2.0.0 Codename: ascii Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages nnn depends on: ii libc6 2.28-5 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-1 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-1 nnn recommends no packages. nnn suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0
