[Bug 546794] Re: [revert, causes errors] Smarter lib* aware autocompletion?

[zika]

I've copy&paste-ed a piece of code from patch to actual file. It works.
But, then, I still get

bash: /etc/bash_completion.d/apt: line 33: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
bash: /etc/bash_completion.d/apt: line 33: ` 2> /dev/null); )'

Of course, if I remove two offending semicolons I get no errors, but, I
think that is not the way it is supposed to work... Am I wrong?

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[revert, causes errors] Smarter lib* aware autocompletion?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546794
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Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
This patch has lead to serious errors (comments #6, #7) and has clearly never been tested.  It should be reverted (debdiff in comment #8).

[ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:]
Binary package hint: apt

Wouldn't it be nice if when typing

apt-get install clu [press tab]

showed libclutter-* etc...

If the autocomplete was just capable of ignoring this common prefix, it would be easier to find a lot of things

:)