This bug was fixed in the package bash-completion - 20080705ubuntu1

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bash-completion (20080705ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian, remaining changes: (LP: #314806)
    * Add qdbus completion. (LP: #257903)
    * Fix IFS issue in _umount and correct _get_cword in _postfix
      (LP: #249337)
    * Both changes in upstream bzr.

bash-completion (20080705) unstable; urgency=low

  [ David Paleino ]
  * Added more completions to imagemagick (thanks to Nelson A. de
    Oliveira) (Closes: #487786)
  * Added xrandr completion (thanks to Anton Khirnov) (Closes: #487825)
  * Improving _gdb completion:
    - $filenames to $default (Closes: #463969)
    - also show directory names (i.e. compgen -d) in COMPREPLY.
    - added . to $PATH, to allow debugging "local" executables.
    - do not complete Bash's builtins (thanks to Morita Sho)

  [ Luk Claes ]
  * Remove use of ucf for /etc/bash-completion (Closes: #488171).

bash-completion (20080617.5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Revert way of setting environment variables (Closes: #487774).
  * Add equals sign to _get_cword for mutt_aliases (Closes: #482635).
  * Enhance mlayer completion (Closes: #487826, #487838).

bash-completion (20080617.4) experimental; urgency=low

  [ David Paleino ]
  * Merged Ubuntu changes:
    - added quote(), quote_readline(), dequote() helper functions.
    - added _remove_word()
    - fixed _get_cword()
    - refactored _filedir using quote_readline()
    - refactored _filedir_xspec using quote_readline()
    - fixed COMPREPLY's in _iwconfig
    - fixed _cvs()
    - _known_hosts(): use files from UserKnownHostsFile options in
                      addition to standard ones.
    - fixed _command() to correctly prune the command line
    - disabled completion of PostgreSQL users and databases
    - fixed _java_packages()
    - fixed _muttquery()
    - added flv/FLV completion to mplayer
    - added --installed to apt-cache
    - only complete on filenames for aspell
    - fixed code for exclusions compspecs
    - added code to gracefully handle debug options (set +/-v)

bash-completion (20080617.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ David Paleino ]
  * Fixed IFS for filedir_xspec - Thanks to Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
    (Closes: #487571)

  [ Luk Claes ]
  * Install dh-bash-completion to ease installation of completions.

bash-completion (20080617.2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ David Paleino ]
  * New upstream release
    - provide a manpage for extra/dh_bash-completion
    - fix semi-serious problem with _filedir() (Closes: #487449)
  * debian/rules:
    - added rule to generate dh_bash-completion's manpage
  * debian/install, debian/dirs:
    - installing dh_bash-completion into /usr/bin
  * debian/control:
    - new package dh-bash-completion

  [ Luk Claes ]
  * Comment new package to make sure current fix gets in the archive first.
  * Add compression completion for vi(m).

bash-completion (20080617.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ David Paleino ]
  * Urgency set to medium because the package is currently unusable.
  * New upstream sub-release
    - fixed some typos here and there which prevented bash completions
      at all (Closes: #487441).
    - really closing Debian bug #455510.

bash-completion (20080617) unstable; urgency=low

  [ David Paleino ]
  * New upstream release
    - add more completions to aptitude (Closes: #432289)
    - fixed UTF-8 problem with _get_cword(), thanks to
      Andrei Paskevich (Closes: #472132)
    - fixed autoremove completion, thanks to Flavio Visentin
      (Closes: #474974)
    - cmf and CMF added to playmidi completion (Closes: #365658)
    - added rrdtool completion, thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #428641)
    - added OpenDocument completion for unzip/zipinfo (.od{f,g,p,s,t})
      (Closes: #472940)
    - fixed escaping problems with job control (i.e. disown, jobs, bg,
      fg): the argument is now surrounded by "" (Closes: #347316)
    - make mkdir complete also on filenames (Closes: #376433)
    - {bz,z}{cat,cmp,diff,egrep,fgrep,grep,less,more} now should complete
      on all filenames, not just compressed archives (just commented out)
      (Closes: #455510)
    - fixes Perl completion (Closes: #470742)
    - fixes get_cword -> _get_cword typo (Closes: #478596)
    - fixes _get_cword() function to properly handle filenames with
      whitespaces (Closes: #394636, #468254, #474094)
    - added .pdf.bz2 completion to evince (Closes: #424736)
    - added .svg completion to display (Closes: #441017)
    - added .m2ts completion to mplayer (Closes: #480879)
    - added extra/dh_bash-completion to ease future rewrite of bc.
  * debian/copyright - now in a fancier machine-parsable format.
  * debian/control:
    - added myself to Uploaders
    - debhelper Build-Depends updated to >= 6.
  * debian/watch:
    - improved current watch line regex
    - added (commented out) probable future watch line
  * debian/compat bumped to 6
  * debian/dirs, debian/install and debian/links added
  * debian/rules:
    - refactored to make use of debian/{dirs,install,links}

  [ Steve Kemp ]
  * Applied patch to fix completion of umount command.
    (Closes: #470539)
  * Fixed the completion of Perl manpages.
    (Closes: #404976)
  * Added 'aif' to the filenames offed for completion for mplayer.
    (Closes: #474517)
  * Allow tsocks completion.
    (Closes: #409423)
  * Update mutt completion to handle local usernames.
    (Closes: #416655)
  * Update apt-get completion to include the flag "--no-install-recommends"
    (Closes: #475242)

 -- James Westby <email address hidden>   Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:58:40 +0000