On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:37:48AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> It appears that GRUB is not consistent with other applications when
> installing the bash completions script.  I suggest the following patch:
>
> diff --git a/util/bash-completion.d/Makefile.am
> b/util/bash-completion.d/Makefile.am
> index 136287cf1..a15bef9c9 100644
> --- a/util/bash-completion.d/Makefile.am
> +++ b/util/bash-completion.d/Makefile.am
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = $(bash_completion_source)
>
>  CLEANFILES = $(bash_completion_script) config.log
>
> -bashcompletiondir = $(sysconfdir)/bash_completion.d
> +bashcompletiondir = /usr/share/bash-completion/completions
>  bashcompletion_DATA = $(bash_completion_script)
>
>  $(bash_completion_script): $(bash_completion_source)
> $(top_builddir)/config.status
>
> ------
>
> We do have a simple workaround by just moving the file after installation,
> but that shouldn't be needed.

I think that solution proposed by Colin is better. If you want to work on
that then you can start with the patches sent by him.

> Also, is there a new stable release being planned?  If so is there a target
> date?  The last release was April 2017.

Yeah, we have to think about that. I hope that we announce something
about it at the beginning of February.

Daniel

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