Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.1-3 Severity: normal re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh
scp is used for copying ordinary files (with the extra bonus of sending them through the internet). So the behaviour I would expect from scp <tab> is to complete filenames, the ones you intend to send. Instead of that, scp <tab> goes insane trying ping every single host on the network whose MAC address it happens to know about, and then floods the screen with error messages complaining it can't connect to them: Failed to resolve service 'bore [00:00:00:00:00:00]' of type '_workstation._tcp' in domain 'local': Timeout reached at least 50 such error messages from all the local hosts. Oh, and the filename I happened to be trying to tab-complete to also appeared at the end after all these network error messages. This is absolutely insane. It makes tab-completion effectively useless for scp. Please remove the interfering networking attempts and let tab-completion do its normal job of making it easier to type filenames. Drew -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bash-completion depends on: ii bash 4.1-1 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
