• Bug#1101675: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#1101675: Bug#1101675: zsh: completion

    From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 3 17:00:01 2025
    Control: tags -1 - upstream

    I'm removing the "upstream" tag, because at

    https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/issues/491#issuecomment-2774459991

    the upstream author says:

    Argcomplete does not activate global completion by default and does
    not recommend that distributions activate it by default. Global
    completion is meant to be activated by the user. I am not a Debian
    maintainer, and I don't have any control over the choices that
    Debian package maintainers make when modifying the installation
    routine of this package.

    So, in short, such completions must not be enabled by default for zsh
    in Debian.

    A bit more details:

    Though the main issue introduced by the latest version 3.6.1 has now
    been fixed upstream (in 3.6.2), the previous versions were already
    badly interfering with user settings, and it was nearly impossible
    for the user to easily find the cause. In my case, removing the python3-argcomplete package (which had been installed automatically
    via a "Recommends:" dependency) made issues I got in the past months
    disappear; I hadn't reported them earlier because they were occurring
    only on one of my machines and I wasn't able to find the cause.

    There have been complaints about this package at least for Arch Linux,
    where the global completion (i.e. changing the "-default-" completer)
    was enabled by default like in Debian. Such completions have then been
    removed in Arch Linux.

    See also:
    https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2025/msg00129.html

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