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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 +0000, 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 <var>command</var>.
> +		  and runs the specified <var>command</var>, 
> +		  interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command
> +		  line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the 
> +		  manner that <tt>xterm</tt> does.
>  		</p></item>
>  
>  	      <item><p>
>  		  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,
branden@debian.org                 |    but that's my general style.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Ian Jackson

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