Bug#723900: bsdgames: debian menu entries sh -c unnecessary

Kevin Ryde user42 at zip.com.au
Sat Sep 21 03:39:24 UTC 2013


Package: bsdgames
Version: 2.17-21
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/menu/bsdgames

/usr/share/menu/bsdgames contains sh -c forms such as

    command="sh -c 'arithmetic;echo PRESS ENTER;read line'"

I believe the sh -c there is unnecessary since the the menu spec
/usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz section "3.6. The `command' field" says
the command is executed with sh -c already.

The doubling which results can be seen for example in fvwm
/etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook which becomes a sh -c of a sh -c,

   exec x-terminal-emulator  -T "Arithmetic Quiz" -e sh -c "sh -c 'arithmetic;echo PRESS ENTER;read line'"


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bsdgames depends on:
ii  libc6                2.17-92
ii  libgcc1              1:4.6.1-3
ii  libncurses5          5.9+20130608-1
ii  libstdc++6           4.6.1-3
ii  libtinfo5            5.9+20130608-1
ii  wbritish [wordlist]  7.1-1

bsdgames recommends no packages.

bsdgames suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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