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

[Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>]

Hi,

I maintain termit. My opinion is, that the policy should rather ask for sane 
behaviour and the proposed change does not look sane.

Could you please also ammend this topic with a few test cases to make testing 
our terminal emulators easier and to be sure that we're all talking about the 
same subject?

e.g.

T=x-terminal-emulator

1. $T -e bc       # runs bc as normal
2. $T -e "bc --quiet"    # fails?
3. $T -e bc --quiet      # runs bc in quiet mode?
4. $T -e "bc *"   # * is not expanded since there's no shell started?
5. $T -e bc *    # Is * expanded? By whom?

Regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro