<div dir="ltr">Package: zsh-common<br>Version: 5.8-7<br><div><br></div><div>Files affected (at least):</div><div>/usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc.zwc</div><div><div>/usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc/run-help</div></div><div><br></div><div>If I try to call "run-help" at a ZSH prompt, it reports:</div><div>> $ run-help      </div>> There is no list of special help topics available at this time.<div><br></div><div>And trying to use it to see the help text for any built-in command just opens a man page for zsh...</div><div><br></div><div>Turns out that the default HISTDIR (which is wrong) in the file that contains the bytecode compiled version of "run-help" is different from the default in the source code "run-help" file:</div><div>> $ grep 'HELPDIR:-/' /usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc/run-help</div>> local HELPDIR=${HELPDIR:-/usr/share/zsh/help}<div>> $ strings /usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc.zwc | grep 'HELPDIR:-/'</div>> HELPDIR:-/usr/share/zsh/5.8/help<br>> HELPDIR:-/usr/share/zsh/5.8/help<div><br></div><div>Setting HELPDIR fixes it, as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems something went wrong in a modified building process for this package --all sourced and compiled files for functions have identical modification times, so at least they were "touched". I couldn't find a way, inspecting the build script (debian/rules) and the source for "run-help", it would end with this result.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><a href="https://about.me/leogama" style="color:rgb(43,130,173);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block" target="_blank"><table style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="font-family:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:top;width:auto;line-height:1" valign="top" align="left"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="2">Leonardo Gama</font></div></td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="font-family:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:top;width:auto;line-height:1" valign="top" align="left"><div style="margin:3px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><img alt="https://" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;width:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidden" width="0" height="0" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7">about.me/leogama</div></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div></div></div></div>