Bug#499594: xinit: broken for direct usage

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Package: xinit
Version: 1.0.9-2
Severity: important


Hello,

According to the man page I should be able to do something like

xinit gmplayer

but I get:

xinit:  No such file of directory (errno 2): no program named xterm in PATH

But I didn't try to start xterm! Even if I try to work around this (which seems 
to be #297003) by creating an xterm symlink xinit is trying to append the 
string 'gmplayer' as an argument to 'xterm'.

I'm guessing in this era of display managers not many people are using xinit 
directly, but this is valid usage of the program and is completely broken.

Regards,
Andrei

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.3.2-1  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.1.5-1  X11 client-side library

xinit recommends no packages.

xinit suggests no packages.

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