[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#970848: Problem with path to completion scripts

[Georgy Komarov]

Package: zsh
Version: 5.8-5
Severity: normal


Hi,

I encountered with a problem, when trying to use custom zsh completions.


Zsh reads completion script files at $DATADIR/zsh/site-functions. This 
location can be configured through autotools in configure.ac: 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zsh/-/blob/debian/configure.ac#L312-315.
According to d/rules file, we explicitly set it to 
|/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions: 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zsh/-/blob/debian/debian/rules#L27.|
||
|But the problem is that some packages that provide zsh completions, 
install completion scripts at ||/usr/share/zsh/site-functions|. This 
leads to the fact that these completion scripts is not working.

Here are some examples of these packages:

- udiskie 
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/udiskie/-/blob/master/setup.py#L116)
- bluez 
(https://salsa.debian.org/bluetooth-team/bluez/-/blob/master/debian/bluez.install#L31)
- polybar 
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/polybar/-/blob/debian/master/contrib/zsh/CMakeLists.txt#L5)
- httpie (not present in salsa)


I am sure that there are more packages with incorrect installation path. 
And I also haven't seen any packages that use 
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-function location for completion scripts (at 
least on my systems).
What is the best way to solve this problem? Should the site-function 
path in zsh's d/rules be fixed? Or this an error in all the other 
packages and we should fix it there?


I'm currently working on debianization of zsh-completions package: 
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions (requested at #849878). 
Where should I install the completion scripts from this package?

-- 
Best regards,
Georgy Komarov

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