From: "Lukas Wagner" <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
To: "Shan Shaji" <s.shaji@proxmox.com>, <pdm-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: applied: [PATCH datacenter-manager 0/2] fix: cli: bash completions not working for CLI tools
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:26:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DGMET14XKBGK.3HS6NBJYVJEPP@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260206163519.218579-1-s.shaji@proxmox.com>
On Fri Feb 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM CET, Shan Shaji wrote:
> Shell completions for the CLIs were not working because the completion
> files were installed with the `.bc` extension.
>
> According to the bash-completion documentation [1], completion files should
> either use the `.bash` extension or no extension at all. Debian currently ships
> bash-completion 2.16 [2]. Since installing files without an extension is
> planned to be deprecated in >=2.18, use the `.bash` extension for
> compatibility with future versions.
>
> documentaion quote:
>> The completion filename for command foo in this directory should be foo.bash.
>> Unsuffixed foo also works, but it is deprecated in >= 2.18.
>
> Passing the `bashcomplete` argument to proxmox-datacenter-api and
> proxmox-datacenter-privileged-api results in an error instead of generating
> completions. Since these binaries are systemd-managed service executables
> rather than user facing CLI tools, providing bash completion helpers might not
> be useful. Since i was not sure why we had completions for the same
> i added it as another patch. Please correct me if i have missed anything.
>
> [1]- https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/06547b33f6de3b6f8ba730f00e7f585297a31b4f/README.md?plain=1#L184
> [2]- https://packages.debian.org/en/trixie/bash-completion
>
applied, thank you!
I squashed in a tiny change into the first commit - the `make clean` rule
still cleaned the old .bc files, so I changed that to remove .bash
files.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-23 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-06 16:35 Shan Shaji
2026-02-06 16:35 ` [PATCH datacenter-manager 1/2] fix: cli: replace completion file suffix from `.bc` to `.bash` Shan Shaji
2026-02-06 16:35 ` [PATCH datacenter-manager 2/2] fix: cli: remove completion files for service bins Shan Shaji
2026-02-23 14:26 ` Lukas Wagner [this message]
2026-02-24 8:40 ` applied: [PATCH datacenter-manager 0/2] fix: cli: bash completions not working for CLI tools Shan Shaji
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