Bug#668490: perl: the debugger should use x-terminal-emulator instead of xterm

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:26:33AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> The upstream ticket [perl #112382] and the resulting discussion at
>  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/04/msg185435.html
> alerted me to the fact that perl5db.pl hardcodes xterm when starting a
> separate debugger instance for child processes.
> 
> I think this should be x-terminal-emulator on Debian, at least until
> it's replaced by something better upstream.

Agreed, but it's not a trivial patch; on my system, x-terminal-emulator
is gnome-terminal, which doesn't accept the '-title' argument
used by perl5db.pl. So I'm not sure it's worth spending time on
separately from upstream.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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