Bug#414230: gnome-terminal: x-terminal-emulator alternative points to wrong man-page

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 04:41 +0100, Alain Kalker wrote:
> On install of gnome-terminal (as default alternative for
> 'x-terminal-emulator', executing 'x-terminal-emulator actually executes 
> '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper' but 'man x-terminal-emulator' still 
> points to 'gnome-terminal', which made debugging a script I wrote quite 
> painful until I noticed this mismatch. In particular, the remapping of 
> the '-e' option to '-x' needs to be documented as being different from 
> the man-page of gnome-terminal.

Hi,

The man page of gnome-terminal.wrapper is just a symlink to the man page
for gnome-terminal. 

We must either add a separate man page for the wrapper, or document the
changes in the gnome-terminal man page.

If you have time, I'm sure patches are welcome.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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