[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#786881: zsh: reusability of bash-completion scripts

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: zsh
Version: 5.0.7-6
Severity: wishlist

In Debian, bash seems to have more package coverage for completion. The
bash-completion package has support for a good number of such scripts.


Given that zsh supports bashcompinit, would it make sense to use the
bash-completion provided scripts ?

If not by default, a pointer in README.Debian may help many users and
provide a much more comprehensive completion experience.

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

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  powerline         2.1-1         amd64         prompt and statusline utility

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  git-buildpackage  0.6.27        all           Suite to help with Debian packages in Gi
ii  mpv               0.9.1-1+ffmpe amd64         video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
ii  pulseaudio        6.0-2         amd64         PulseAudio sound server
ii  systemd           215-17        amd64         system and service manager
ii  vlc-nox           2.2.1-1+b1    amd64         multimedia player and streamer (without 

dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.4+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  dpkg        1.17.25
ii  libc6       2.19-18
ii  libcap2     1:2.24-8
ii  libtinfo5   5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  zsh-common  5.0.7-6

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libpcre3      2:8.35-3.3

Versions of packages zsh suggests:
ii  zsh-doc  5.0.7-6

-- no debconf information