completion for dak not helpful (Completion/Debian/Command/_dak)

completion for dak not helpful (Completion/Debian/Command/_dak)

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

[ Please CC me in replies. I'm not subscribed to the list. ]

the completion rules for dak are not very helpful:

Many subcommands do not offer filename completion even though the
command accepts files. That's really annoying.

The list of options the various subcommands take is quite outdated. So
are the hardcoded names of architectures, suites and sections.

The rules should either be updated and at least offer filename
completion or the entire completion for dak could be dropped (it's a
fairly specific tool that not many people use anyway).

I already reported this in Debian's BTS[1], but it wasn't forwarded.

  [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/691601>

Ansgar

Re: completion for dak not helpful (Completion/Debian/Command/_dak)

[Peter Stephenson]

In case you hadn't guessed, I'm leaving this for those associated with
Debian to deal with as they see fit.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Re: completion for dak not helpful (Completion/Debian/Command/_dak)

[Clint Adams]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:23:06PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Many subcommands do not offer filename completion even though the
> command accepts files. That's really annoying.

This should help with that problem.

diff --git a/Completion/Debian/Command/_dak b/Completion/Debian/Command/_dak
index 5aaaeef..840fc00 100644
--- a/Completion/Debian/Command/_dak
+++ b/Completion/Debian/Command/_dak
@@ -238,6 +238,10 @@ case $cmd in
     )
     ;;
 
+    (*)
+    _files
+    ;;
+
 esac
 
 _arguments -s "$args[@]" && ret=0