[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Fwd: FS#17503: [unzip] zsh completion missing for unzip patches

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Feb 26 19:38:28 EST 2010


On 27/02/10 07:10, Thayer Williams wrote:
>> At some point we began patching unzip with additional flags, allowing it to
>> properly extract UTF-encoded zip files made on the win32 platform. Apparently
>> this has broken zsh autocompletion features.  Similar unzip patches have been
>> submitted upstream and all have been rejected. Upstream has considered adding
>> proper support, but has stopped short of committing to it.

Doesn't our patching policy say to not include patches that are not 
supported by upstream.  Removing the unsupported patch seems the right 
thing to do.  Send all complaints upstream.

Allan


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