Bug#637910: 271 broke -e parsing
Package: xterm
Version: 271-1
Severity: important
According to the documentation, and behavior in 270 and previous, the -e
option eats the rest of the command line, passing that as arguments to
the program executed.
In 270, xterm -e mysql -u foo works as expected.
In 270, xterm -e mysql -h foo works as expected.
In 271, xterm -e mysql -u foo works as expected.
In 271, xterm -e mysql -h foo does NOT work.
In 271, the -h variant prints out xterm's help and exits.
In 270, the -h variant does not print anything.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libutempter0 1.1.5-4 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.9-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.2.0-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-1 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.6+3 X11 utilities
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.3 Cyrillic fonts for X
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