Package: xterm Version: 271-1 Severity: important According to the documentation, and behavior in 270 and previous, the -e option eats the rest of the command line, passing that as arguments to the program executed.
In 270, xterm -e mysql -u foo works as expected. In 270, xterm -e mysql -h foo works as expected. In 271, xterm -e mysql -u foo works as expected. In 271, xterm -e mysql -h foo does NOT work. In 271, the -h variant prints out xterm's help and exits. In 270, the -h variant does not print anything. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libutempter0 1.1.5-4 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-1 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.9-2 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxft2 2.2.0-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-1 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii x11-utils 7.6+3 X11 utilities Versions of packages xterm suggests: ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.3 Cyrillic fonts for X -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815170421.16999.11720.report...@zia.metrics.net