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

[Daniel Shahaf]

Vincent Lefevre wrote on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:05 +00:00:
> 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.

Upstream does have the Etc/BUGS file to track bugs in.  Why don't you
help maintain it?

Or if you want to help upstream set up some less-barebones bug tracker,
something that can track "affected versions" metadata too, I'm sure
upstream's -workers@ and -infra@ would be happy to have you on board.

Cheers,

Daniel
(upstream hat on)

> 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).