[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#756138: zsh: please provide a prompt theme that reads /etc/debian_chroot

[Felipe Sateler]

Package: zsh
Version: 5.0.5-4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

When logging into a porterbox, it would be quite useful to have a
theme that reads /etc/debian_chroot and puts it somewhere on the prompt.
The default debian bash prompt does that.

The default zsh config (as done when pressing 2 on initial zsh run)
loads the promptinit extension and enables a theme by default. However,
none of the themes reads out /etc/debian_chroot. I understand one could
provide this configuration by hand. However, since porterboxes are
things one uses relatively sparingly, a good-enough prompt by default
(or easily achievable) would be better than fetching configuration from
elsewhere, and then reloading zsh.


-- Package-specific info:
*** Packages which depend, recommend, suggest or enhance a zsh package and hence may provide code meant to be sourced in .zshrc ***

*** Packages which provide vendor completions ***
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version           Architecture      Description
+++-========================-=================-=================-======================================================
ii  docker.io                1.0.0~dfsg1-1     amd64             Linux container runtime
ii  git-buildpackage         0.6.15            all               Suite to help with Debian packages in Git repositories
ii  mpv                      0.4.1-1           amd64             video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
ii  pass                     1.6.3-1           all               lightweight directory-based password manager
ii  pulseaudio               5.0-3             amd64             PulseAudio sound server
ii  vcsh                     1.20140508-1      all               Version Control System for $HOME - multiple Git reposi

*** Packages which provide vendor functions ***
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  libc6       2.19-7
ii  libcap2     1:2.24-1
ii  libtinfo5   5.9+20140712-2
ii  zsh-common  5.0.5-4

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20140712-2
ii  libpcre3      1:8.31-5

Versions of packages zsh suggests:
pn  zsh-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information