Package: whiptail
Version: 0.52.14-11.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I have found that the whiptail(1) manual page contains an unreal exit code at
the "DIAGNOSTICS" section.
It says that the exit code on "ESC" keystroke is -1, however it is 255:
# whiptail --msgbox test 0 0
*ESC keystroke*
# echo $?
255
..
I attached a patch file which fixes this error.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages whiptail depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1
ii libnewt0.52 0.52.14-11.1
ii libpopt0 1.16-7
ii libslang2 2.2.4-15
whiptail recommends no packages.
whiptail suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- whiptail.1.old 2014-04-19 16:06:29.423939755 +0200
+++ whiptail.1.new 2014-04-19 16:04:55.415941235 +0200
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@
.B whiptail
is exited by pressing the
.I ESC
-key, the exit status is -1.
+key, the exit status is 255.
.SH AUTHOR
Based on the man page for dialog(1) by:
.LP
