[PLUG] New xterm behavior in Debian

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@lrcressy.com>]

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Hi all,

With the latest Debian upgrade I noticed that the bash people altered a
config file in /etc without prompting about the change.

/etc/bash.bashrc has been changed to include the following:

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
   PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
   ;;
*)
   ;;
esac

This means that if you call xterms with -T string the title string
specified in xterm options is overwritten by bash with total disregard
to user preferences.

I always thought that it was Debian policy to prompt before changing any
config file.  Thought this makes upgrading a little slower, the config
files are protected.
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