bash-completion doesn't support man subsections (was: Linux man-pages Makefile portability)

Alejandro Colomar
2022-07-25T12:46:29Z

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Hi Colin,

On 7/25/22 11:28, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 01:09:23PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> [TO += Colin; CC += man-dv-devel@;
>> there's a bug in man(1)'s autocomplete]
>
> man-db doesn't ship its own autocomplete code at the moment.
> This is probably shipped by some other package in your distribution,

Heh, I bet it's the same as yours, as you show up as the maintainer ;)

$ apt-cache show man-db | grep Maintainer
Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

Yeah, I use Debian (Sid).

> although I don't know exactly what that would be (maybe bash-completion?).
Reported to upstream:
<https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/778>

Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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