[Bug 1372286] Re: unwanted space after directory completion (probably old cruft after upgrades)

[Peter Cordes]

Attached the full-fledged perl script I cooked up to investigate
obsolete conffiles.

grep the output, it doesn't take options.

When removing them, it often leaves empty directories, so don't forget
to remove them, too.  (If they aren't owned by some other package...
check with dlocate, or add support to my script for walking up a path
and checking.)

 I *highly* recommend etckeeper to save your bacon if you delete something and then wish you hadn't.
sudo git checkout master~4 -- bash_completion.d/mercurial
 was far more convenient than re-installing the package.  And you have a record of what you did.


** Attachment added: "list all obsolete conffiles that aren't non-obsolete in another package"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/1372286/+attachment/4272472/+files/obs-conffiles

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Title:
  unwanted space after directory completion (probably old cruft after
  upgrades)

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  With bash-completion 2.1, some users are seeing broken completion for
  directories, with a space being added at the end, requiring a
  [BACKSPACE]/[TAB].

  Testcase copied from bug 1000470, which I'm closing because it was
  probably from acroread.sh, which is now blacklisted.

  Extra space scenario:
  find /op<TAB> ==> find /opt<Space>

  Backslash scenario:
  cd ~
  mkdir -p test\ 1/test
  find test\ 1/t<TAB>
  find test 1/test
  find: `test': No such file or directory
  find: `1/test': No such file or directory

  
  This bug can get closed when we find out what other old files get left in /etc/bash_completion.d and cause problems, so we can blacklist them, too.

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