Package: xboard Version: 4.2.6-2.1 Severity: normal
I do not have xterm installed on my debian system. If I choose menu Help,"info xterm" or Help,"man xterm" nothing happens, apart from this error message in the console: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xboard sh: line 1: xterm: command not found I have had a look through the source code and xboard just spawns xterm without checking that this file exists in the path and without checking whether the call completed successfully. So xboard needs either to check for the existence of xterm and popup an error message if it doesn't exist (as the user would not see the console error message unless they had started xboard from a console) or alternatively spawn /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator instead of xterm which would be better as it would prevent a dependency on an arbitrary package. I assume that all x-terminal-emulators will respond appropriately to -e command line parameter (x-terminal-emulator -e $command). I have tested this with konsole and gnome-terminal-emulator and they both do at any rate. As a consequnce xboard should suggest either xterm or x-terminal-emulator, and info and man-db as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages xboard depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-8 Xaw3d widget set ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
