Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.2.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: sid patch

When starting X, the hostname version string is displayed. This comes from
the Xauth setup in startx. The Debian version of hostname outputs its version
string to stderr. The following patch suppresses this error:

--- startx.orig 2002-10-04 22:49:05.000000000 +0200
+++ startx      2002-10-08 20:27:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 # set up default Xauth info for this machine
 case `uname` in
 Linux*)
-       if [ -z "`hostname --version | grep GNU`" ]; then
+       if [ -z "`hostname --version 2>/dev/null | grep GNU`" ]; then
                hostname=`hostname -f`
        else
                hostname=`hostname`


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux gw.bolli.homeip.net 2.4.18-586tsc #1 Sun Apr 14 10:57:57 EST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp                      2:2.95.4-17     The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  debconf                  1.2.10          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-15        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdps1                  4.2.1-1         Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libfreetype6             2.1.2-7         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                  4.2.1-1         X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibmesa3 [libgl1]       4.2.1-1         XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic
ii  xlibs                    4.2.1-1         X Window System client libraries

-- debconf information:
* xbase-clients/default_100dpi: 
* xbase-clients/default_nolisten_tcp: 




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