{"thread":{"id":"28316","subject":"question about interactive.singlekey","startedAt":"2011-09-06T20:50:11Z","lastAt":"2011-09-06T21:42:51Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Valentin Haenel","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"174961","messageId":"20110906205011.GC1747@kudu.in-berlin.de","threadId":"28316","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"question about interactive.singlekey","fromName":"Valentin Haenel","fromEmail":"valentin@fsfe.org","sentAt":"2011-09-06T20:50:11Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-06T20:50:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"valentin@fsfe.org","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\ni have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the\n'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop,\nwhich has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian\nstable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but\nperhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does\nthe 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries\nwhich were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?\n\nAny ideas on where to look are greatly appreciated.\n\nV-\n"},{"id":"174963","messageId":"7vsjo9743o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"28316","inReplyTo":"20110906205011.GC1747@kudu.in-berlin.de","subject":"Re: question about interactive.singlekey","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-09-06T21:28:27Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-06T21:28:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:\n\n> i have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the\n> 'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop,\n> which has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian\n> stable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but\n> perhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does\n> the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries\n> which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?\n\nI see this:\n\n        eval {\n                require Term::ReadKey;\n                Term::ReadKey->import;\n                $use_readkey = 1;\n\nso perhaps...\n\n    $ apt-cache search term.*readkey\n    libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control\n"},{"id":"174964","messageId":"20110906213326.GD1747@kudu.in-berlin.de","threadId":"28316","inReplyTo":"7vsjo9743o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: question about interactive.singlekey","fromName":"Valentin Haenel","fromEmail":"valentin@fsfe.org","sentAt":"2011-09-06T21:33:26Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-06T21:33:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"valentin@fsfe.org","avatar":null},"body":"* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [110906]:\n> Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:\n> \n> > i have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the\n> > 'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop,\n> > which has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian\n> > stable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but\n> > perhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does\n> > the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries\n> > which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?\n> \n> I see this:\n> \n>         eval {\n>                 require Term::ReadKey;\n>                 Term::ReadKey->import;\n>                 $use_readkey = 1;\n> \n> so perhaps...\n> \n>     $ apt-cache search term.*readkey\n>     libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control\n\nBingo! Thanks! Should i send this downstream somewhere?\n\nV-\n"},{"id":"174965","messageId":"7vobyx73fo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"28316","inReplyTo":"20110906213326.GD1747@kudu.in-berlin.de","subject":"Re: question about interactive.singlekey","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-09-06T21:42:51Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-06T21:42:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:\n\n>> > ... Does\n>> > the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries\n>> > which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?\n>> \n>>  ...\n>> so perhaps...\n>> \n>>     $ apt-cache search term.*readkey\n>>     libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control\n>\n> Bingo! Thanks! Should i send this downstream somewhere?\n\nIt may make sense to add libterm-readkey-perl to Suggests, perhaps, but I\nam not a debian maintainer and I am not familiar with the policies to\nhandle a minor dependencies like this.\n\n$ apt-cache show git | grep Maintainer\nMaintainer: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>\n"}]}