Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:41:15AM +, Jonathan David Amery wrote: I suggest that the following patch be applied to policy in order to resolve this issue: --- policy.sgml.old Fri Nov 15 09:30:47 2002 +++ policy.sgml Fri Nov 15 09:36:16 2002 @@ -6982,9 +6982,12 @@ emulator application were so coded, be a new view in a multiple-document interface (MDI). /p /footnote - and runs the specified varcommand/var. + and runs the specified varcommand/var, + interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command + line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the + manner that ttxterm/tt does. /p/item itemp Support the command-line option tt-T I second this proposal. The menu system depends heavily on the behaviour of x-terminal-emulator. Thanks for writing this proposal. I suppose that make it an formal amendment ? Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no record of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] package, and no bugs have been filed against it. pgp8sjUwcMqya.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:30:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:41:15AM +, Jonathan David Amery wrote: I suggest that the following patch be applied to policy in order to resolve this issue: --- policy.sgml.old Fri Nov 15 09:30:47 2002 +++ policy.sgml Fri Nov 15 09:36:16 2002 @@ -6982,9 +6982,12 @@ emulator application were so coded, be a new view in a multiple-document interface (MDI). /p /footnote - and runs the specified varcommand/var. + and runs the specified varcommand/var, + interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command + line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the + manner that ttxterm/tt does. /p/item itemp Support the command-line option tt-T Seconded. It has been pointed out to me that: s/entirity/entirety/ -- G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpBJIxuJ1KPc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
I suggest that the following patch be applied to policy in order to resolve this issue: --- policy.sgml.old Fri Nov 15 09:30:47 2002 +++ policy.sgml Fri Nov 15 09:36:16 2002 @@ -6982,9 +6982,12 @@ emulator application were so coded, be a new view in a multiple-document interface (MDI). /p /footnote - and runs the specified varcommand/var. + and runs the specified varcommand/var, + interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command + line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the + manner that ttxterm/tt does. /p/item itemp Support the command-line option tt-T
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:41:15AM +, Jonathan David Amery wrote: I suggest that the following patch be applied to policy in order to resolve this issue: --- policy.sgml.old Fri Nov 15 09:30:47 2002 +++ policy.sgml Fri Nov 15 09:36:16 2002 @@ -6982,9 +6982,12 @@ emulator application were so coded, be a new view in a multiple-document interface (MDI). /p /footnote - and runs the specified varcommand/var. + and runs the specified varcommand/var, + interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command + line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the + manner that ttxterm/tt does. /p/item itemp Support the command-line option tt-T Seconded. -- G. Branden Robinson|I'm sorry if the following sounds Debian GNU/Linux |combative and excessively personal, [EMAIL PROTECTED] |but that's my general style. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Ian Jackson pgpYD5GJ3sYeB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Jonathan Amery wrote: It doesn't interpret the command line after the -e option the same way that xterm does: xterm -e less .bash_profile runs `less .bash_profile' in a new terminal window whereas gnome-terminal -e less .bash_profile runs `less' in a new terminal window (and doesn't appear to do anything useful with the .bash_profile argument at all). gnome-terminal -e 'less .bash_profile' works of course, but that doesn't work for xterm. Okay, I get it. Yes, clarification is required. I guess we have to mandate that -e be treated as the last x-terminal-emulator option, eh? -- G. Branden Robinson| Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained [EMAIL PROTECTED] | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpt3Bg5kWCFL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
Okay, I get it. Yes, clarification is required. I guess we have to mandate that -e be treated as the last x-terminal-emulator option, eh? That won't help with the quoting.
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:52:49AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: Okay, I get it. Yes, clarification is required. I guess we have to mandate that -e be treated as the last x-terminal-emulator option, eh? That won't help with the quoting. Feel free to read what I wrote as support the -e option as xterm does. j -- G. Branden Robinson| The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpWw8iI2vMxl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:49:15PM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote: The current: * Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new terminal window[53] and runs the specified command. doesn't distinguish between gnome-terminal's -e option and xterm's -e option, which are incompatible. (gnome-terminal provides a wrapper to fix this problem). What's to distinguish? Does gnome-terminal's -e option *not* create a new terminal window and run the specified command? It doesn't interpret the command line after the -e option the same way that xterm does: xterm -e less .bash_profile runs `less .bash_profile' in a new terminal window whereas gnome-terminal -e less .bash_profile runs `less' in a new terminal window (and doesn't appear to do anything useful with the .bash_profile argument at all). gnome-terminal -e 'less .bash_profile' works of course, but that doesn't work for xterm. The policy is telling you what your -e option must do for you to be able to call yourself an x-terminal-emulator. However, based on the policy description you can't currently use x-terminal-emulator -e to run anything other than a command that has no arguments and whos name requires no kind of quoting. J.
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: minor The current: * Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new terminal window[53] and runs the specified command. doesn't distinguish between gnome-terminal's -e option and xterm's -e option, which are incompatible. (gnome-terminal provides a wrapper to fix this problem). -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux xantha 2.4.18 #1 Sat Jul 6 14:34:20 BST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages debian-policy depends on: ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:49:15PM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote: The current: * Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new terminal window[53] and runs the specified command. doesn't distinguish between gnome-terminal's -e option and xterm's -e option, which are incompatible. (gnome-terminal provides a wrapper to fix this problem). What's to distinguish? Does gnome-terminal's -e option *not* create a new terminal window and run the specified command? The policy is telling you what your -e option must do for you to be able to call yourself an x-terminal-emulator. -- G. Branden Robinson| Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fsck;more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck; http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |umount;sleep pgpffHcXaRDto.pgp Description: PGP signature
