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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Sven,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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.

JFTR: I've got a Zsh menu entry.

> Manually running "update-menus" brought it back.

Could though have been that another tool ran update-menus in the meanwhile.

Hrm. Could this be the switch from debhelper compat 11 to 12? Then
again, /var/lib/dpkg/info/zsh-common.postinst has this code inserted
by debhelper:

# Automatically added by dh_installmenu/12
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
        update-menus
fi
# End automatically added section

Looks good to me, i.e. doesn't explain that sudden difference. In
contrary, this looks like a bug elsewhere. I also see nothing related
in the "Changes from v11" section of debhelper(7)…

> 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.

Hrm.

> 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).

I a) doubt that this helps because that commit is from 2012. I also
don't see why it should be in the architecture-dependent package while
being an architecture-independent file.

> Or remove the menu file altogether.

Indeed an option, but IMHO not because of this issue. IMHO shells are
nothing to be used via some menu.

		Regards, Axel
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