Package: zsh
Version: 5.8-5
Severity: normal
Hi,
I encountered with a problem, when trying to use custom zsh completions.
Zsh reads completion script files at $DATADIR/zsh/site-functions. This
location can be configured through autotools in configure.ac:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zsh/-/blob/debian/configure.ac#L312-315.
According to d/rules file, we explicitly set it to
|/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zsh/-/blob/debian/debian/rules#L27.|
||
|But the problem is that some packages that provide zsh completions,
install completion scripts at ||/usr/share/zsh/site-functions|. This
leads to the fact that these completion scripts is not working.
Here are some examples of these packages:
- udiskie
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/udiskie/-/blob/master/setup.py#L116)
- bluez
(https://salsa.debian.org/bluetooth-team/bluez/-/blob/master/debian/bluez.install#L31)
- polybar
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/polybar/-/blob/debian/master/contrib/zsh/CMakeLists.txt#L5)
- httpie (not present in salsa)
I am sure that there are more packages with incorrect installation path.
And I also haven't seen any packages that use
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-function location for completion scripts (at
least on my systems).
What is the best way to solve this problem? Should the site-function
path in zsh's d/rules be fixed? Or this an error in all the other
packages and we should fix it there?
I'm currently working on debianization of zsh-completions package:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions (requested at #849878).
Where should I install the completion scripts from this package?
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Best regards,
Georgy Komarov
