Hi, Paul.
On 26 Aug 2018, Paul Wise wrote:
>
>The completion for dpkg -L/--listfiles does not list held packages when
>grep-status (from dctrl-tools) is installed. This is because the
>grep-status _comp_dpkg_purgeable_packages cares about the dpkg package
>selection states (install/hold/deinstall/purge) while the other version
>only cares about the dpkg package states (installed/unpacked/etc).
>
>There is a similar issue for the _comp_dpkg_installed_packages
>function.
>
>The fix for this is quite simple, just remove install/deinstall from
>the arguments to the -FStatus options.
Ack.
>$ diff -u /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dpkg*
>--- /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dpkg 2018-03-31
>07:07:32.000000000 +0800
>+++ /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dpkg.fixed
>2018-08-26 12:02:49.488857999 +0800 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> _have grep-status && {
> _comp_dpkg_installed_packages()
> {
>- grep-status -P -e "^$1" -a -FStatus 'install ok installed' -n -s
>Package
>+ grep-status -P -e "^$1" -a -FStatus 'ok installed' -n -s Package
> }
> } || {
> _comp_dpkg_installed_packages()
>@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
> _have grep-status && {
> _comp_dpkg_purgeable_packages()
> {
>- grep-status -P -e "^$1" -a -FStatus 'install ok installed' -o
>-FStatus 'deinstall ok config-files' -n -s Package
>+ grep-status -P -e "^$1" -a -FStatus 'ok installed' -o -FStatus
>'ok config-files' -n -s Package
> }
> } || {
> _comp_dpkg_purgeable_packages()
Thanks for writing the fix... I'll apply it to the package and forward
this upstream.
