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Bug#762286: marked as done (apt: no bash-completion for the apt command)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:30:52 +0200
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and subject line Re: apt: no bash-completion for the apt command
has caused the Debian Bug report #762286,
regarding apt: no bash-completion for the apt command
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Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

There is no bash-completion support for the apt command like there is
for apt-get, apt-cache etc.

-- Package-specific info:


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2014.1
ii  gnupg                   1.4.18-4
ii  libapt-pkg4.12          1.0.9.1
ii  libc6                   2.19-11
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.9.1-14
ii  libstdc++6              4.9.1-14

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                      <none>
pn  aptitude | synaptic | wajig  <none>
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.17.13
ii  python-apt                   0.9.3.10

-- no debconf information

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Hi

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 06:19:24PM -0000, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> Here's an autocomplete file for the apt command:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/445637/can-i-enable-bash-completion-for-the-new-apt-command/445638#445638
> 
> Please include it, or something similar in the next release.

Thanks, but the apt package doesn't include completion scripts for the
other commands either. They are provided by bash-completion (for bash),
by zsh, by fish, by …

Supporting every shell in the universe seems a bit counterproductive and
hard to do given that most people only know and use a few… and even the
few shells I know and use (which is just zsh for me) I wouldn't call
myself experienced enough with to write good completion scripts for.
So-so scripts maybe, but good…


Long story short, currently we rely on the shell (completion)
maintainers to implement completion script as those are the people who
know how to do that efficiently. This is therefore not a bug in apt
– and a bug reported already in bash (with a patch) (from Michael even).


So, not a bug in apt (even if it effects [some] apt users), hence
closing.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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