Re: Package Requests: Update: bash-completion, coreutils - New: linux-manpages

[Richard Beels <rbeels@yahoo.com>]

At 8/13/2021 at 01:11, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Brian Inglis's 
keyboard and said:
>  I suggested linux-manpages a while back, as it comes from the same 
> source as posix-manpages, and I install it myself, but did not get 
> voted to package, due to duplication with conflicting priorities 
> and no easy way to resolve under existing paths.

Huh...  they go to /usr/local by default (easily changeable with 
`make prefix=...`), which is pretty bare to begin with and with the 
fact that they don't package hardly anything in man1, the conflict 
potential goes down even further.  Ah well, I guess I just keep 
making it manually from a cloned repo.


>  I could probably look at bash-completion if I can get around to 
> bash, as I would worry about dependencies, fixes, and tweaks. There 
> are big challenges in bash and coreutils being years out of date as 
> parts of those need customized for Cygwin, and the customization 
> patches are likely to have issues, or even need redesign, if there 
> have been major changes.

bash-completion is a separate/disconnected project (now located at 
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion), it doesn't align its 
releases with bash itself.  bash-completion 2.7-2.10 require bash 
4.1+, 2.11 bumped that to 4.2.  Since we're at 4.4, I don't think 
that's a showstopper (BICBW).



And thanks again for the findutils update.  4.7 gave us 
comma-delimited -type/-xtype specs, so a "( -type p -o -type s )" 
(shown non-quoted for sanity's sake) becomes "-type p,s".  :thumbsup: