[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#848097: terminal.app: Provides x-terminal-emulator, but doesn't implement the requirements

Ben Longbons brlongbons at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 06:14:35 UTC 2016


Package: terminal.app
Version: 0.9.8-1+nmu1+b2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 11.8.3

Dear Maintainer,

Quoting policy:

>To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must:

> * Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal, or a compatible terminal.

> * Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new terminal window[106] and runs the specified command, interpreting the entirety of the rest of the command line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the manner that xterm does.

> * Support the command-line option -T title, which creates a new terminal window with the window title title.

/usr/bin/Terminal appears to not have *any*, options, not even `--help`.

Until (or unless) this is implemented, the `Provides:` header and the
update-alternatives logic must be removed.

-Ben


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (600, 'testing-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages terminal.app depends on:
ii  libc6                2.24-7
ii  libgnustep-base1.24  1.24.9-3
ii  libgnustep-gui0.25   0.25.0-4
ii  libobjc4             6.2.1-5

terminal.app recommends no packages.

terminal.app suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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