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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 <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



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