bash completion for ubuntu-bug

for someone that like file file many bugs, it would be really useful to have apport auto complete the package names.

I haven't worked with creating bash completions yet, but I'm happy to accept patches. :-)

there is bash completion for package names for other programmes, (e.g.: aptitude), so in theory it shouldn't be much work to add it to ubuntu-bug

Heh, funny that I find that bug now... I actually wrote one for me over the holidays. It works fine for me, but since I wrote it from the 'ubuntu-bug --help' output someone should check if it works ok. I didn't have any issues so far. For bugs just ping me on IRC in #ubuntu-bugs
To use the attachment copy it somewhere and type 'source /path/to/apport_completion' in your bash prompt.

Found a bug after all...

Sweet, thanks! We need to make this work for "apport-bug" as well (which is the upstream name), but that should be easy.

Sure, apport-bug support added.

I tried to add some apport-cli support, but even though the --help output is the same as apport-bug I get

$ apport-cli --pid 1
No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.

$ apport-cli -p tcsh
No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.

apport-cli itself or the documentation broken?

Updated again, and it makes more sense to get the file from

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~yofel/%2Bjunk/misc/files/head%3A/apport/

before I add a new file all the time.

Philip Muškovac [2010-01-13 11:11 -0000]:
> $ apport-cli --pid 1
> No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.

Right, if you want to file a bug you need to specify -f.
apport-bug does that for you, and also selects an appropriate
frontend.

> apport-cli itself or the documentation broken?

I think the synopsis points it out well enough, and there's a
detailled description of all the options. But if it's unclear, I'm
happy to accept/do clarifications in the manpage.

Martin
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Committed your latest version (from your r10) into apport trunk (r1698).

Many thanks!

Ok, I finished the completion for now. It now has
support for all parameters for ubuntu-bug apport-bug and apport-cli with more restricted filename completion than r10
apport-unpack completion only completes on .crash/.apport files and foldernames
apport-collect has package completion if -p | --package is given
Mail be if you find any bugs or if I forgot anything.

Hello Philip,

Philip Muškovac [2010-01-19 0:57 -0000]:
> Ok, I finished the completion for now.

Thank you! I pulled the latest version into apport trunk.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.12-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.12-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - launchpad.py: Add options 'escalation_subscription' and 'escalation_tag'
      for handling bugs with more than 10 duplicates.
    - crashdb.conf: For Ubuntu, escalate bugs with >= 10 duplicates to
      "ubuntu-bugcontrol" and tag them with "bugpattern-needed".
      (LP: #487900)
    - general-hooks/generic.py: Filter out crashes on missing GLX
      (LP: #327673)
    - Add bash completion script. Thanks to Philip Muškovac. (LP: #218933)
    - launchpad.py: Drop APPORT_FILES whitelist for download() and instead
      just filter out file extensions that we know about (*.txt and *.gz).
      (LP: #444975)
    - launchpad.py: Do not put the Tags: field into the bug description, since
      they are already proper tags. In download(), convert the real tags back
      to the Tags: field. (LP: #505671)
    - test/crash: Update expected core dump flags for changed rlimit behaviour
      in Linux 2.6.32.
    - launchpad.py: Fix marking of 'checked for duplicate' for bugs with
      upstream tasks.
    - launchpad.py, get_fixed_version(): Do not consider a bug as invalid just
      because it has any invalid distro package task.
  * debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Switch to lucid.
  * debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Do not locally install python-apt and
    friends, users can run apt-get install in DC dchroots now.
  * debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Don't add the retracer PPA for now,
    everything we need is in lucid.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:51:15 +0100

I've got 1.12 installed, but the completion doesn't work.

now that you mention it, it indeed is included only in the apport source. Forgot to add '/etc/bash_completion.d' to apport.install pitti?

*headdesk*, sorry for that. Packaging fix commited.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.12.1-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.12.1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream bug fix release:
    - launchpad.py: Do not keep escalating bugs, just escalate at the 10th
      duplicate.
    - Improve error message if a symptom script did not determine a package
      name. (LP: #503834)
    - general-hooks/generic.py: Fix crash on libGL check with empty
      StacktraceTop.
    - Review and clean up usage of chmod(). This fixes a small race condition
      in the Python exception hook where a local attacker could read the
      information from another user's crash report. (LP: #516029)
    - hookutils, package_versions(): Ignore "None" packages, for more robust
      package hooks. (LP: #518295)
  * debian/apport.install: Actually install the bash completion file.
    (LP: #218933)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes necessary).

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]
  * source_linux.py: Tag kernel bugs which utilize a driver from staging. Also
    provide the list of staging drivers in use. Prefix suspend/resume bug
    titles with "[STAGING]" if a staging driver was being used.
    (LP: #524174, #524167)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:58:16 +0100