To summarize what the current status of this bug is:
- Users who install etch get bash completion as part of the default install
(as part of bash package).
- Users who install lenny get bash completion as part of the default install
(via bash-completion package which is installed by tasksel).
- Users who install etch and upgrade to lenny would preserve bash-completion
functionality because of the Recommends in bash, _but_ apt in etch doesn't
follow Recommends yet, so this only applies if they update apt first.
I think this shows clearly there's an unresolved transition here. I understand
bash-completion shouldn't be Essential, but the process for moving it out isn't
being done properly. It's not acceptable that end users get this functionality
silently disabled without any obvious explanation (they might not even know
which package provides it, or how).
My proposal is that in lenny, bash Depends on bash-completion, and for lenny+1
it moves it back to Recommends.
Matthias, if you still have an objection to this approach, please bring it up.
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