Your message dated Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:52:57 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#1063941: libvte-2.91-common:
/etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh dereferences undefined PS0
has caused the Debian Bug report #1063941,
regarding libvte-2.91-common: /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh dereferences undefined
PS0
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: libvte-2.91-common
Version: 0.75.91-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
At the start of my $HOME/.bashrc I have configured "set -u" to catch the
use of undefined variables.
Whenever I open a new gnome-terminal window using bash as the shell, the
script vte-2.91.sh will emit two messages about dereferencing an
undefined variable PS0.
This is a recent regression and similar in nature to the earlier
bug #941247 that has been fixed.
The script appears to be part of the Debian packaging; I do not find it in
the upstream repository https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/tree/master
The attached patch fixes the problem for me. I think that it would be good
to test the script with "set -u" somehow, to prevent future regressions
like this.
Best regards,
Marko
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/40 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libvte-2.91-common depends on:
ii libc6 2.37-15
libvte-2.91-common recommends no packages.
libvte-2.91-common suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
--- /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh
+++ /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
# the column, important for handling TAB followed by BS keypresses.
# Prepend to the user's PS0 to preserve whether it ends in '\r'.
# Note that bash doesn't support the \[ \] markers here.
- PS0='\e]133;C\e\\\r'"$PS0"
+ PS0='\e]133;C\e\\\r'"${PS0:-}"
fi
elif [[ -n "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ]]; then
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.77.91-1
On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 at 15:43:24 +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
I've applied the fix upstream, it'll be in the next version. (The script _is_
upstream, in src/[1]vte.sh.in).
Fixed in 0.77.0 upstream. We never packaged that version in Debian, so
closing this as fixed in the first version we packaged that contained
the fixed script instead.
smcv
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