minimal highlight tool from mintsystem causes hangs

[Heiko Voigt]

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://git-scm.com/) to hang. It was a quite hard to find since I was not suspecting that my linux installation itself would be at fault.

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.

[Heiko Voigt (hvoigt)]

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.

[Heiko Voigt (hvoigt)]

Good that I am not using mint anymore... Without a comment to Won't Fix ... Thanks.