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| author | Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> | 2021-12-30 09:40:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> | 2021-12-30 10:18:11 +0100 |
| commit | 0fbb22e7589a3d873cbe27b68b26470e00da9697 (patch) | |
| tree | 0aea4b51f489f852471b44ba2def0a47d95612a6 | |
| parent | 2556a97c5b91a3eeaa7e8cc09aa4ea2d4369b815 (diff) | |
| download | zsh-0fbb22e7589a3d873cbe27b68b26470e00da9697.tar.gz zsh-0fbb22e7589a3d873cbe27b68b26470e00da9697.zip | |
Extend zsh-static package description to explain its use cases
… as well as advantages and disadvantages.
Thanks: shirish शिरीष to make us aware of this deficency of the package description by asking the right questions (back in 2015). :-)
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b92dfc648..9dca34d3c 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -101,7 +101,15 @@ Description: shell with lots of features (static link) shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features. . - This is the statically-compiled version of the shell. + This is the statically-compiled version of the shell, i.e. it doesn't + require any dynamically loaded libraries to be present and will work + even if libraries zsh (in general) needs are broken on the system. So + it's more robust in case of a broken system. + . + It though also has a few limitations compared to the normal, + dynamically linked, e.g. it can't use NSS related functionality which + might result in minor imperfections like e.g. user names being shown + in the prompt. Package: zsh-dev Architecture: any |