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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:06:03PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Policy 11.8.3 says -T should work for them all.

Ah yes, silly me. Tested patch to follow.

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