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

[Thayer Williams]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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

Agreed and done. Thanks everyone for the input.