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Package: debian-policy
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X-debbugs-cc: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>

A suggestion from mirabilos:

On Thu, Aug 24 2017, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

OK, enough yak shaving and back to your original question. Yes, this
is correct, although the wording could probably be improved to deal
with arguments after -e that begin with a hyphen-minus.

“xterm -e foo bar -T baz blah” will call “foo bar -T baz blah”, so the -e works like an implicit -- there.

--
Sean Whitton

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