test-columns and test-msg fails

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test-columns and test-msg fails

irl opened this issue 9 years ago · 10 comments

Hi,

I am attempting to update the zshdb package in Debian however I am noticing that the two tests test-columns and test-msg appear to fail.

The Debian bug can be found at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796472#12 and I have attached a build log there.

This is being built in a Debian unstable (sid) environment and will have the versions of packages currently in sid. You can also see the versions in the build log.

Thanks,
Iain.

Answer 1 · 2015-08-22T06:45:37.000Z

What is going on is that in your environment zsh's "builtin printf "%-3s" (or any negative %s) isn't. This isn't a zshdb bug but somehow a bug in your environment or with zsh as I understand it. (zsh has changed semantics? Doesn't seem likely here.)

Does building and testing outside of the debian "make" work in your environment?

Answer 2 · 2015-08-22T06:46:11.000Z

Oh. And thanks for packaging zshdb for debian.

Answer 3 · 2015-08-22T18:02:20.000Z

Ah ok, so it works outside of the Debian builder chroot, but not inside. I'll investigate futher...

Answer 4 · 2015-08-22T18:11:54.000Z

Also works using the Debian tools to build outside the chroot, just building in the chroot seems to be broken. Would the lack of a tty be an issue?

Answer 5 · 2015-08-22T18:24:38.000Z

Would the lack of a tty be an issue?

I don't think so. More closely related is zsh itself and why it is not handling "%-Xs" correctly. A simple suggestion is to compare the zsh version with that outside. And inside perhaps you can run a little test of builtin printf "%-10s" hiwhich should look like this:

hi

not

hi

Answer 6 · 2015-08-22T18:33:22.000Z

So I've got zsh 5.0.7 outside and 5.0.8 inside. Running inside the chroot interactively:

orbiter% builtin printf "%-10s" hi  
        hi%

Which I guess is suboptimal. Any idea what would be causing this problem?

Answer 7 · 2015-08-22T18:38:00.000Z

I have no idea. I recall that zsh has lots of modes, settings, options and behaviors that control things.

So my suggestion is to ask zsh folks on the zsh-help mailing list. Is that zsh-users-subscribe@zsh.org ?

Answer 8 · 2015-08-22T18:51:18.000Z

Ok, I'm now discussing this with the Debian Zsh Packaging Team. As this is not a bug in zshdb but in zsh, I'll close the issue. I'll notify you by email once the package is in Debian (unless more problems arise).

Answer 9 · 2015-08-22T18:59:58.000Z

Thanks. If the Debian Zsh Packaging Team doesn't work out, I have had good luck with the general users zsh mailing list.

Answer 10 · 2015-08-22T19:05:06.000Z

19:51:32 ft ╡ I bet this is caused by what is fixed in 35412
19:51:49 ∟ ╡ zsh-workers reference number that is.
19:52:17 ∟ ╡ http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2015/msg01336.html
19:52:28 ∟ ╡ So that's fixed upstream already.
19:52:54 ∟ ╡ There are talks about a 5.1 release in the immediate future.

So this is an upstream issue.