Comment 3 for bug 205444

Thanks for reporting this bug in Ubuntu.

The main problem with the readonly variables has already been fixed in hardy.

The issue with -v is a bit more tricky. I think the idea was that if you set -v to debug your startup script, you're probably not interested in thousands of lines of output from bash_completion.

So I propose to set -v or set +v based on the value of $BASH_COMPLETION_DEBUG, but restore the original setting at the end of the script.

This will make it possible to debug without being overwhelmed by output from bash_completion or also debug bash_completion selectively.

What do you think?

A version that does this can be found here:
http://git.zoopnet.de/bash-completion.git?a=blob_plain;f=bash_completion;hb=601bb9cdd810467b5ce2c4a2c672f68ba4b43e55

Let me know whether this works for you.