[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#1101675: Bug#1101675: zsh: completion suddenly broken

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: tags -1 - upstream

I'm removing the "upstream" tag, because at

  https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/issues/491#issuecomment-2774459991

the upstream author says:

  Argcomplete does not activate global completion by default and does
  not recommend that distributions activate it by default. Global
  completion is meant to be activated by the user. I am not a Debian
  maintainer, and I don't have any control over the choices that
  Debian package maintainers make when modifying the installation
  routine of this package.

So, in short, such completions must not be enabled by default for zsh
in Debian.

A bit more details:

Though the main issue introduced by the latest version 3.6.1 has now
been fixed upstream (in 3.6.2), the previous versions were already
badly interfering with user settings, and it was nearly impossible
for the user to easily find the cause. In my case, removing the
python3-argcomplete package (which had been installed automatically
via a "Recommends:" dependency) made issues I got in the past months
disappear; I hadn't reported them earlier because they were occurring
only on one of my machines and I wasn't able to find the cause.

There have been complaints about this package at least for Arch Linux,
where the global completion (i.e. changing the "-default-" completer)
was enabled by default like in Debian. Such completions have then been
removed in Arch Linux.

See also:
  https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2025/msg00129.html

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