[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#920746: zsh-common: lost menu entry on upgrade

[Sven Joachim]

Package: zsh-common
Version: 5.7-2
Severity: normal

In the latest uploads (5.7-1 and 5.7-2) I noticed that the Debian menu
entry for zsh got lost when upgrading zsh and zsh-common.  Manually
running "update-menus" brought it back.  This is rather annoying because
it generates spurious extra commits from etckeeper.

There does not seem to be a change in zsh itself which could have
triggered this, rather I suspect some change in dpkg 1.19.3 has caused
it.  Related bugs in menu are #628574, #518919 (archived) and #900838.

A possible solution is to move the menu file back to zsh where it
arguably belongs (it was moved to zsh-common in commit be35418de3).
Or remove the menu file altogether.


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

Kernel: Linux 4.20.5-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

zsh-common depends on no packages.

Versions of packages zsh-common recommends:
ii  zsh  5.7-2

Versions of packages zsh-common suggests:
ii  zsh-doc  5.7-2


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