Hello Trent, On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:12:42 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> [..] > Unfortunately my current netbook is a funky ARM thing that is running > ubuntu 11.10 until I find time to migrate it to wheezy. Is it > feasible to just drop current wheezy bash-completion .deb into an old > ubuntu install? I realize it's usually a stupid thing to try, but I > suspect bash-completion is fairly isolated and unlikely to break > anything. Ubuntu 11.10 ships with bash 4.2 and bash-completion 1:1.3. I believe it's pretty safe to do -- yes. Oh well, if you run into any problems, you can always downgrade bash-completion to the version you have in the repositories :) (since downgrading is not "supported", here's a hint: apt-get install bash-completion=1:1.3-1ubuntu6) > The Ubuntu-specific patches are pretty minimal (ignoring .pc quilt > noise), ref. http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bash-completion.html Yup, it seems so. Even if it would be better if we could reduce the Debian-Ubuntu delta here too :) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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