Bug#770369: Eterm on Jessie, Stretch and Sid does not run shell (fwd)
severity 770369 serious
thanks
Hello Debian X maintainers.
Would someone here help (me) to debug this?
Follows an email from a user suggesting the bug could be in the
xserver, or anything which is "below" the package, not in the package
itself, but I can't verify that.
Thanks.
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From: Stamatis Mavrogeorgis <stamatis@sky.com>
To: 770369@bugs.debian.org
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 13:41:22 +0100
Subject: Bug#770369: Eterm on Jessie, Stretch and Sid does not run shell
Exact same problem here.
I did some investigation and I can confirm the following:
* Eterm (0.9.6-1) runs properly on AntiX-15 which is based on Jessie.
* I installed (with dpkg) on Jessie the Eterm deb package that runs properly on AntiX-15 and Eterm still
exhibits the same erratic behaviour [on Jessie].
* I installed on AntiX-15 the Eterm deb package that behaves erratically on Jessie, and it runs properly
[on AntiX-15].
* I repeated the latter two above steps between AntiX-15 and Stretch (testing) and AntiX-15 and Sid with
identical results as with AntiX-15 and Jessie: - AntiX-15 runs the Stretch and Sid Eterm packages
properly, whereas Stretch and Sid exhibit erratic behaviour on the Eterm package brought over from
Antix-15.
The above led me to speculate that there is nothing wrong with the Eterm package per se, instead, the
problem seems to lie with Jessie and subsequent (Stretch, Sid) system implementations.
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