bash-completion for scp broken with version 20060301-4ubuntu1 on intrepid ibex

[Ondrej Marsalek]

Binary package hint: bash-completion

intrepid ibex release candidate amd64

bash-completion 20060301-4ubuntu1

completion of remote directories (using public keys for ssh) is broken. trying something like

$ scp somehost:directo[tab]

results in

$ scp directory/

it recognizes the hostname and manages to complete the remote directory, but changes the text in the commandline by deleting the hostname. for comparison, i have no such problem hardy heron and bash-completion 20060301-3ubuntu3.

expected result: just like hardy :-)

[Andreas Leitgeb (avl-logic)]

It seems to depend on more factors.
I can reproduce it on one intrepid machine with same version of bash-completion,
but not on another intrepid machine with again same version of the package.

[Andreas Leitgeb (avl-logic)]

My previous notice was a bit terse.

Further tracking seems to locate the cause of the
problem in /etc/profile.d/gvfs-bash-completion.sh
from package gvfs-bin.

Moving away that one file and starting a new login
shell makes scp expansion work correctly, moving
it back and starting a new login shell gets the
symptoms of the bug back.

[Andreas Leitgeb (avl-logic)]

Appears to be a bug in gvfs-bin.

[Andreas Leitgeb (avl-logic)]

changing COMP_WORDBREAKS in /etc/profile.d/gvfs-bash-completion.sh
has nasty effect on other completions, at least on "scp".