[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#672388: Bug#672388: npm: completion in Zsh causes error message regarding missing /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/completion.sh

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-05-11 at 11:47am, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Jonas Smedegaard [Thu May 10, 2012 at 09:31:22PM +0200]:
> > On 12-05-10 at 06:27pm, Michael Prokop wrote:
> 
> > > I'm using Zsh:
> 
> > > % zsh --version
> > > zsh 4.3.17 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
> 
> > > which provides a completion in its package
> > > (/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_npm), but
> > > there seems to be something fishy in the npm package.
> 
> > What makes you decide that the fishy part is in npm when zsh 
> > provided that /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_npm file?
> 
> > I could easily imagine that zsh had put something together that 
> > assumed npm was installed outside of the system, i.e. below either 
> > $home or /usr/local - which obviously isn't the case for 
> > Debian-packaged npm.
> 
> > Or did I misunderstand something?
> 
> Well, Zsh's completion file is as simple as that:
> 
> | % cat /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_npm
> | #compdef npm
> |
> | # Node Package Manager 0.3.15 completion, letting npm do all the completion work
> |
> | _npm() {
> |   compadd -- $(_npm_complete $words)
> | }
> |
> | # We want to show all errors of any substance, but never the "npm (not )ok" one.
> | # (Also doesn't consider "ERR! no match found" worth breaking the terminal for.)
> | _npm_complete() {
> |   local ask_npm
> |   ask_npm=(npm completion --color false --loglevel error -- $@)
> |   { _call_program npm $ask_npm 2>&1 >&3 \
> |   | egrep -v '^(npm (not |)ok|ERR! no match found)$' >&2; \
> |   } 3>&1
> | }
> |
> | _npm "$@"
> 
> And running the "npm completion" command even without any further
> arguments fails (in Zsh and Bash):
> 
> | % npm completion
> |
> | npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/completion.sh'
> | npm ERR! You may report this log at:
> | npm ERR!     <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>
> | npm ERR! or use
> | npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /home/mika/npm-debug.log npm
> | npm ERR!
> | npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-1-grml-amd64
> | npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "completion"
> | npm ERR! cwd /home/mika
> | npm ERR! node -v v0.6.17
> | npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
> | npm ERR! path /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/completion.sh
> | npm ERR! code ENOENT
> | npm ERR! message ENOENT, open '/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/completion.sh'
> | npm ERR! errno {}
> | npm ERR!
> | npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
> | npm ERR!     /home/mika/npm-debug.log
> | npm not ok
> 
> So from my POV the completion command of npm is broken in the Debian
> package.

Agreed.  Thanks for the valuable details!

 - Jonas

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