[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#1122569: Bug#1122569: zsh: With RC_EXPAND_PARAM, s:string: does not elide an empty field

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2025-12-12 00:28:17 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Vincent Lefevre [Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 01:22:17PM +0100]:
> 
> > Forwarded: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2025/msg00816.html
> > 
> > The zshexpn(1) man page says:
> [...]
> 
> Thanks for reporting this towards upstream.
> 
> Is there any specific reason why we should track this - AFAICT
> very minor issue - also within Debian's BTS?

The issue is that upstream does not have a bug tracker, and
this makes difficult to know which versions are affected,
and which bugs need to be tested to check whether they are
still there in Debian.

Note that though this bug probably occurs very rarely, it can
introduce obscure incorrect behavior in scripts.

> I'm asking, because our list of open bugs at
> https://bugs.debian.org/zsh is already quite long, as you might be
> aware of, and AFAICS ~32 of those bug reports got submitted by you.
> 
> The current maintainers of pkg-zsh are quite overloaded already, so
> any assistance in improving the actual situation would be very
> welcome. Given your track record, maybe you wanna join us? :)

I check old bugs from time to time (in particular when there
are new versions of packages, but which hasn't happened for a
long time concerning zsh).

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