Bug#613844: x11-common: Xsession(5) man page should be updated to reflect the change done for bug 604010
Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.6+3
Severity: normal
The Xsession(5) man page says:
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup
[...] If the script is not executable, it is marked to be executed
with the Bourne shell interpreter, sh. [...]
After the change done in 1:7.6+3 for bug 604010, this is no longer
true. It should say:
If the script is not executable, it is marked to be executed with
$SHELL, or with sh if $SHELL is not set.
or something like (I'm not sure whether this is true):
If the script is not executable, it is marked to be executed with
$SHELL (usually the user's login shell), or with sh if $SHELL is
not set.
Moreover I think that this change should be announced in the NEWS file,
as it can break compatibility (for instance, zsh doesn't do sh word
splitting by default).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
x11-common suggests no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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