Bash-Completion notice

Hi,
I already flagged bash-completion several days ago in the packages system, but i wanted to stress the need for an update, here is the extract from the developer's site: http://www.caliban.org/bash/
bash 3.1 is now available. Initial reports suggest that there are some minor incompatibilities between this version and the 20050721 release of the bash completion code, which many people are still using. Please ensure that you upgrade to the 20060301 release, which is believed to fix these issues.
As you know, we have bash 3.1 on current for some time now, and well, i just wish i could use bash-completion again
I dont know where to post this, packages forums changed since the AUR and well... this is the best place i could find.

sud_crow wrote:
Hi iphitus,
i flagged it out of date, i didn't know the consequences of that, that issues a bug-tracker ticket?
just as a side note:
i thought on posting it because i know that the flag doesn't necessarily mean the update is important, but as this package didn't work anymore, i wanted to let know it was a pretty important update... although its not a base package and i / it can wait!
No, the flag emails the developer.
What i meant is that, most devs dont read the forums, but most do check the bug tracker, and would take notice if you issued a bug ticket to inform them.
iphitus

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quigybo wrote:
Actually thinking about it, rather than using the semi-dodgy fix posted on the bug tracker, we can just test if the daemon is running since we are not on MacOS X. It is cleaner and 250 ms quicker.
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@@ -1316,10 +1316,12 @@
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EDIT (20031013): new url & version 1.0 is out
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sud_crow wrote:Im not chassing you, i swear!
I begin to feel like a dot in pacman .
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toofishes wrote:
defcon wrote:
i've seen that pacman 3.1 has it's own bash completion file
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toofishes wrote:
defcon wrote:
i've seen that pacman 3.1 has it's own bash completion file
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prim wrote:You have to run bash as a login shell.
See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30205
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