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question about interactive.singlekey

Subject: question about interactive.singlekey

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4 messages between Sep 6, 2011 and Sep 6, 2011.

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Valentin Haenel· Sep 6, 2011, 20:50 UTC · lore

Hi,

i have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the 'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop, which has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian stable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but perhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?

Any ideas on where to look are greatly appreciated.

V-

Junio C Hamano· Sep 6, 2011, 21:28 UTC · re: Valentin Haenel · lore

Re: question about interactive.singlekey

Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:

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> i have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the
> 'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop,
> which has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian
> stable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but
> perhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does
> the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries
> which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?

I see this:

        eval {
                require Term::ReadKey;
                Term::ReadKey->import;
                $use_readkey = 1;

so perhaps...

    $ apt-cache search term.*readkey
    libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control

Valentin Haenel· Sep 6, 2011, 21:33 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: question about interactive.singlekey

* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [110906]:

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> Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:
> 
> > i have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the
> > 'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop,
> > which has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian
> > stable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but
> > perhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does
> > the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries
> > which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?
> 
> I see this:
> 
>         eval {
>                 require Term::ReadKey;
>                 Term::ReadKey->import;
>                 $use_readkey = 1;
> 
> so perhaps...
> 
>     $ apt-cache search term.*readkey
>     libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control

Bingo! Thanks! Should i send this downstream somewhere?

V-

Junio C Hamano· Sep 6, 2011, 21:42 UTC · re: Valentin Haenel · lore

Re: question about interactive.singlekey

Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:

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>> > ... Does
>> > the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries
>> > which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?
>> 
>>  ...
>> so perhaps...
>> 
>>     $ apt-cache search term.*readkey
>>     libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control
>
> Bingo! Thanks! Should i send this downstream somewhere?

It may make sense to add libterm-readkey-perl to Suggests, perhaps, but I am not a debian maintainer and I am not familiar with the policies to handle a minor dependencies like this.

$ apt-cache show git | grep Maintainer
Maintainer: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>