Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bash-completion

I (erroneously) used sudo for downloading source code. When trying to run the 
configure script and using parameter completion, error messages are displayed
To reproduce: 
$ sudo apt-get source pstoedit # for example
$ cd pstoedit-3.45
$ ./configure --pre
   After [TAB] (should complete to --prefix) it looks like:
$ ./configure --pre./configure: 53: cannot create conf10670.sh: Permission 
denied
./configure: 53: cannot create conf10670.sh: Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `conf10670.sh': No such file or directory
./configure: line 44: conf10670.sh: Permission denied
./configure: line 45: conf10670.sh: Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `conf10670.sh': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `conf10670.dir': Permission denied
./configure: line 499: conf10670.file: Permission denied
fix

** Affects: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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.configure script completion prints error messages when tried with insufficient 
permissions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223882
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