[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#962135: zsh-common: "dpkg -l" completion should not proposed purged packages

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: retitle -1 zsh-common: "dpkg -l" completion should not propose purged packages

On 2020-06-03 18:15:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> "dpkg -l" proposes all packages known by apt-cache:
> 
> zira:~> dpkg -l [TAB]
> zsh: do you wish to see all 95490 possibilities (95491 lines)? 
> 
> For instance, in the completion list:
> 
> zira:~> dpkg -l abcde
> dpkg-query: no packages found matching abcde
> 
> Only packages with available information should be proposed, like
> "dpkg -s" (whose completion is currently buggy, see bug 962133).

Like for bug 962133, the fix should be easy: change avail
(which is used for "apt-cache show") to xinstalled. I'm going
to do some tests.

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