Re: qpdf or bashcompinit completion bug

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2025-08-19 06:59:13 -0500, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 6:41 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As a user, I did not choose to use bashcompinit. It is the zsh
> > completion system that uses it, via a system-level completion.
> 
> This is not the case.  There is no completion for qpdf distributed with
> zsh.  You or your system installer have chosen to make it available from a
> third party (possibly the qpdf application itself), and the supplier of
> _qpdf has chosen to implement it by using the optional bashcompletion
> support rather than to re-implement it in native zsh.
> 
> The bashcompletion sources are specifically designed to implement the bash
> interface to completion definitions as closely as possible, so that any
> functions written for bash do not have to be rewritten, but zsh does not
> require or even encourage its use.

So, the internal, non-optional and undocumented use of bashcompinit
by qpdf completion should be regarded as a bug in the qpdf package?

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