[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#934926: Bug#934926: update (overridding of default fpath causes uncessary complexity and pain for software providing zsh completions)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> That's not to say that things can't be improved going forward.

The big question to me seems "how?".

> […], or /etc/zsh/zshrc.d/ could be added (there's a separate ticket
> for that but my quick grep didn't find it),

You probably had https://bugs.debian.org/776663 in mind which has been
filed against zsh-common, not zsh (but src:zsh), so I suspect you
haven't it found because of that.

There's also an Ubuntu bug report on a similar topic at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsh/+bug/1800280 which is
specifically about parsing /etc/profile, i.e. the same file bash
parses.

> Indeed, this ticket seems a bit open-ended.  What's being asked
> here?

Ack!

And JFTR: I actually don't have an opinion on this, either, as I'm too
far away from knowing the non-debian conventions.

I'd though would like to see a consensus inside the Debian Zsh team on
how (and where) to go forward. I'd especially would be happy to hear
about Frank's (Cc'ed) opinion as he and Daniel are those who are most
clued about upstream things and especially upstream conventions. (And
because I know that Frank has a quite clear opinion on #776663 — where
I actually do have an opinion, too, albeit a different one than Frank.)

Joey: I re-added the actual bug report title to the subject to make it
clear about what topic the discussion is.

		Regards, Axel
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