#931685 bash-completion: completion disables usage of environment variables

Package:
bash-completion
Source:
bash-completion
Submitter:
Michael Becker
Date:
2019-12-27 11:57:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#931685#5
Date:
2019-07-09 09:39:47 UTC
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with an existing directory $HOME/devel
  ls $HOME/dev<TAB>
completes to
  ls \$HOME/devel/
what invalidates the usage of the environment variable
#931685#10
Date:
2019-07-10 02:04:26 UTC
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Control: merge 922657 931685
Control: stop

This has the same root cause of bug https://bugs.debian.org/922657,
i.e.: in _quote_readline_by_ref, the backslash gets added by:

  printf -v $2 %q "$1"

This has been reported upstream as
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/290

I'm merging the bug reports.

Thanks,
Gabriel
#931685#21
Date:
2019-12-27 11:49:21 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,
IMHO seem that #653837 is also related to the explanation here, maybe
those may be make related or be merged (as with #922657)

Thanks!
xiscu