> Well said, I agree 100%. > > I consider both parties to be wrong here: > * Jonathan went very hasty on the NMU > * Herbert refuses a patch for a quite annoying thing, fixing which requires > no effort on his side (as the submitter did all the work), without > providing any rationale > > It's a clear bug to me: the package behaves in a different way based on > whether an unrelated doodad (some X stuff) is installed or not. That breaks > people's muscle memory, requiring user's effort for every single machine the > package is installed on -- or, on every invocation, thinking "is this shell > on a GUI machine?". And I for one ssh to my home desktop a lot. > > "because one does not want to press tab" is a ridiculous explanation. > > Thus, Herbert: could you please tell us if you have any reason to reject the > fix, other than being annoyed with a NMU done in a wrong way? >
It seems more ridiculous to me do not want to use an alias.
