Package: ytalk
Version: 3.3.0-3
Severity: wishlist

When starting a shell, ytalk does not honor the SHELL environment
variable. Also, it uses my login even when there is a variable USER with
a different value. Here are the small patches:

--- ../../ytalk-3.3.0/src/user.c        2005-01-18 22:20:05.000000000 +0100
+++ ytalk-3.3.0/src/user.c      2006-07-14 18:44:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "mem.h"

 #include <pwd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>

 extern int dont_change_my_addr;
@@ -45,6 +46,8 @@
        ylong uid;
 {
        register struct passwd *pw;
+       char* c;
+       if ((c = getenv("USER")) != NULL) return c;
        passwd_opened = 1;
        if ((pw = getpwuid(uid)) == NULL)
                return NULL;


--- ../../ytalk-3.3.0/src/exec.c        2005-02-07 18:32:43.000000000 +0100
+++ ytalk-3.3.0/src/exec.c      2006-06-26 20:19:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -189,11 +189,14 @@
 #endif

        pw = getpwuid(myuid);
+       shell=getenv("SHELL");
+       if(shell==NULL){
        if (pw != NULL) {
                shell = pw->pw_shell;
        } else {
                shell = "/bin/sh";
        }
+       }

        calculate_size(&prows, &pcols);



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ytalk depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-3          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  talkd                     0.17-13        Remote user communication server

ytalk recommends no packages.

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