Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.50
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/dch

When working from a dumb terminal, my EDITOR is set to ed.
I happened to try to use dch in such a situation today, and this is what
happened:

    $ dch
    +4: No such file or directory
    Q
    dch: debian/changelog unmodified; exiting.
    $

It appears that dch assumes that all editors accept an offset argument,
e.g. "emacs +20 foo.txt" to open foo.txt and put the cursor on the
twentieth line.  I can't see any way to tell dch not to assume this.


-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-23-openvz (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.2     Debian package development tools
ii  libc6                         2.9-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.10.0-23  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                 3.1.10.2              Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  bzr                1.13.1-1              easy to use distributed version co
ii  curl               7.18.2-8.1            Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  dctrl-tools        2.13.1                Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debian-keyring     2009.05.28            GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii  debian-maintainers 1.60                  GPG keys of Debian maintainers
ii  dput               0.9.4                 Debian package upload tool
ii  dupload            2.6.6                 utility to upload Debian packages
ii  equivs             2.0.7-0.1             Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii  fakeroot           1.12.4                Gives a fake root environment
ii  git-core           1:1.6.3.1-1           fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii  gnupg              1.4.9-4               GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libauthen-sasl-per 2.12-1                Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1+b1             Support for https protocol in LWP
ii  libparse-debcontro 2.005-2               Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii  libsoap-lite-perl  0.710.08-2            Client and server side SOAP implem
ii  libterm-size-perl  0.2-4+b1              Perl extension for retrieving term
ii  libtimedate-perl   1.1600-9              Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl        1.37+dfsg-1           Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  libwww-perl        5.826-1               WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  libyaml-syck-perl  1.07-1                fast, lightweight YAML loader and 
ii  lintian            2.2.10                Debian package checker
ii  lsb-release        3.2-22                Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7pre1-1           Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  man-db             2.5.5-2               on-line manual pager
ii  mercurial          1.2.1-3               scalable distributed version contr
ii  netrik [www-browse 1.15.7-2.1            text mode WWW browser with vi like
ii  openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-5+b1          secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  patch              2.5.9-5               Apply a diff file to an original
ii  patchutils         0.3.1-2               Utilities to work with patches
ii  strace             4.5.17+cvs080723-2    A system call tracer
ii  subversion         1.5.6dfsg-1           Advanced version control system
ii  unzip              6.0-1                 De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m [www-browser]  0.5.2-2+b1            WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  w3mmee [www-browse 0.3.p24.20-3+b2       WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  wdiff              0.5-18                Compares two files word by word
ii  wget               1.11.4-2              retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.4        Informational list of build-essent
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>      (no description available)
pn  devscripts-el                <none>      (no description available)
pn  gnuplot                      <none>      (no description available)
pn  libfile-desktopentry-perl    <none>      (no description available)
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>      (no description available)
ii  mutt                         1.5.18-6+b1 text-based mailreader supporting M
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>      (no description available)

-- no debconf information



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to