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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 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.

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