[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#718657: xfce4-terminal does not honor x-terminal-emulator -e option

[Paul Gevers]

Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.4.8-1+b1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 11.8.3

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xfce4-terminal declares that it provide x-terminal-emulator, but it fails
to support the -e option in the way described in the policy (instead, the 
- -x option does that).

paul at wollumbin ~ $ xfce4-terminal -e sleep 5
Unknown option "5"
paul at wollumbin ~ $ xfce4-terminal -x sleep 5 # window pops up for 5 seconds and disappears
paul at wollumbin ~ $ xterm -e sleep 5 # window pops up for 5 seconds and disappears
paul at wollumbin ~ $

Please don't provide x-terminal-emulator if your package doesn't meet the
requirements (other packages depend on that behavior). I believe gnome-terminal
in Debian proves a wrapper for itself to make -e behave as it should for
x-terminal-emulator. You could do the same if you want to keep providing
x-terminal-emulator.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii  exo-utils           0.6.2-5
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.100.2-1
ii  libexo-1-0          0.6.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libvte9             1:0.28.2-5
ii  libx11-6            2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxfce4util4       4.8.2-1

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.8-1+deb7u1

xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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