minimal highlight tool from mintsystem causes hangs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Linux Mint 11
It seems that linux mint has its own minimal implementation of the highlight command. It is contained in the package mintsystem. Since its just a wrapper around a sed call this will hang:
highlight --version
which for me causes the git testsuite (http://
There are other problems: Even if I install the real highlight tool (package: highlight) it will not be called since your replacement is installed in /usr/local/bin which comes earlier than /usr/bin in PATH.
Why not add a dependency to the real highlight tool for the mintsystem package? That would fix this bug.
description: | updated |
Changed in linuxmint: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
From what I can see the tool is different from the original highlight. Here is a RFC patch to mintsystem of what I propose as solution. I am not sure how to test this properly maybe someone could tell me in which places this tool is used.