Bug#247766: tetex-bin: only the last -xrm on the command line is effective

[Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-10
Severity: normal

According to the manual page for X(1), you are supposed to be able to
put multiple "-xrm resourcestring" argument on the command line.  When
you do this with xdvi, all but the last one specified are entirely
ignored.

I invoke the actual binary, just in case the wrapper is screwing up
the arguments:

    /usr/bin/xdvi.real -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "x":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "]":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "m":quit()' test.dvi

That should make the 'x' and ']' and 'm' keys quit.  In fact, only the
'm' key and the default 'q' key quit.  If you switch them around, it
is always the last one specified that works.  I say they are entirely
ignored because the normal binding of the 'x' key is what the 'x' key
does, if it is in any position other than the last.

I have no idea whether this is a problem with xdvi, with X, or with X
documentation.  The documented behavior is the desired one; you
(supposedly) can only specify one resource at a time with -xrm, so to
be limited to one is inconvenient.  More importantly, if there were a
limitation of one such argument, then the extra ones should raise an
error instead of be silently ignored.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-beth.4
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.8.1        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                        1.10.20      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                          0.2-20       The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-6    GCC support library
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3                2.0.2-10     path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                   1.1.14       Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.5.0-6    PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                     5.0.2-0pre1  Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww0                     5.4.0-9      The W3C WWW library
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                     4.3.0-7      X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                     4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                      4.3.0-7      X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support                3.26-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                        5.8.3-3      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                         4.0.9-2      The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base                  2.0.2-6      Basic library files of teTeX
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: 
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
  tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
* tetex-bin/texmf: true