Re: BUG: completion suddenly broken in Debian

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2025-03-30 05:48:37 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I've just reported the following bug:
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1101675
> 
> With "zsh -f":
> 
> qaa% mkdir testdir
> qaa% touch testdir/FOO
> qaa% autoload -U compinit
> qaa% compinit
> qaa% zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '' 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
> qaa% : testdir/f
> 
> If I try to complete "testdir/f", I get no matches.
> 
> On an older machine, I get "testdir/FOO" as expected.
> 
> I suspect that some package upgrade broke completion (I can only
> see libcap2).

Indeed, this comes from the new python3-argcomplete Debian package.

I noticed a similar issue in the past few weeks (or months?), where
I needed to type <tab> twice to get the expected completion on this
machine. I didn't have the time to look at the cause. But now it
appears that this also came from this package.

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