Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com> writes:

> Regarding the formulation, your suggestion does fix the issue Hendrik
> identified. I would still remind that the term "command" is ambiguous
> (you must be referring to simple commands here).

I'm not sure how else to word it.  I tried to resolve that ambiguity, but
apparently wasn't successful.

> Also, I suggest to make the policy as implementation-independent as
> possible, ideally avoiding to force usage of exec.

But that matters for interoperability.  The point of this section is to be
able to issue the command:

    x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file'

and know that it works.  If you don't use exec, it won't.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>