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#1 2022-05-09 16:21:22

Enrico1989
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[SOLVED] Is bash-completion so outdated for a reason?

I've hit this bug (https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/646), which is pretty annoying, but at the linked page you can see that it was fixed in March 2021, one year ago.

That surprised me, so I checked here (https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/an … ompletion/) and saw that the latest update is in May 2021; since it's just a little after March 2021, I think it's compatible with not having the update.

But still, why so old? In comparison, bash (https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/bash/) has been update in January.

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#2 2022-05-09 16:47:19

lmn
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Re: [SOLVED] Is bash-completion so outdated for a reason?

That's because packages are generally build from releases not from the git head (in this case). And looking at the projects releases page the last release was 2.11 in July 2020. If you want there is the bash-completion-git package in the AUR.

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#3 2022-05-09 17:24:32

Enrico1989
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Re: [SOLVED] Is bash-completion so outdated for a reason?

But I read Last Updated:    2019-04-28 05:00 (UTC)

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#4 2022-05-09 17:34:33

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Re: [SOLVED] Is bash-completion so outdated for a reason?

I assume you mean the "last Updated" field in the AUR package.  That means that the PKGBUILD has been updated at that time. This timestamp does not reflect the software version that will be installed. VCS packages (as this is a -git package) are building from the most recent commit. If the PKGBUILD is still accurate (I have not confirmed this, but it passes a cursory glance) then it will build the most recent version. Try building it and see if it works. If you need further assistance, feel free to ask.

Edit: grammar, also the AUR package builds on my machine

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