On Monday, April 10 2023, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote: > When I took the maintainer role for bash-completion, I did a lot of bug > archaeology, but the amount of bugs and patches was too large, so I > don't know the reason for every packaging bit. I could do some more > digging, but a lot of the history was gone when we moved to salsa (I > even forgot the name of the old system), so I'll just focus on your > problem and try to determine if we can get rid of this specific patch > while minimizing pain for other users.
Hey! So, the old system was called Alioth. When we migrated to salsa, there was some effort to preserve the history of old repositories, and fortunately bash-completion was one of them. For reference, you can find the Alioth archive here: https://alioth-archive.debian.org/ Bash-completion's archive is here: https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/bash-completion/ We're interested in the debian.git.tar.xz file, which contains the git repo for the Debian package: $ wget https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/bash-completion/debian.git.tar.xz $ tar xf debian.git.tar.xz $ git clone debian.git old-bash-completion $ cd old-bash-completion $ git log -- debian/patches/00-fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch commit d734ca3bd73ae49b8f452802fb8fb65a440ab07a Author: David Paleino <da...@debian.org> AuthorDate: Wed Mar 19 10:20:35 2014 +0100 Commit: David Paleino <da...@debian.org> CommitDate: Wed Mar 19 10:20:35 2014 +0100 fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch, thanks to JuanJo Ciarlante (Closes: #739835) + avoid escaping 1st '~' (LP: #1288314) + avoid quoting if empty, else expansion without args only shows dirs (LP: #1288031) + replace double escaping to single (eg for completing file/paths with spaces) HTH, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible https://sergiodj.net/
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