[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#521243: bzr: empty command line in ‘bzr shell’ should be a null operation

[Ben Finney]

Package: bzr
Version: 1.13~rc1-1
Severity: normal

Quite often when using a shell I will press <Enter> one or more times
to clear some visual space from the previous command output. This
works in most shells because an empty commandline is a null operation;
it returns immediately to the prompt.

The ‘bzr shell’ currently does not behave the same way; instead, an
empty command line is interpreted as “repeat the last command line,
whatever it was”. This leads to frustration at minimum, and sometimes
disaster if the command should not be repeated.

The behaviour of Bazaar's shell should conform with common shell
behaviour, and treat an empty command line as a null command,
returning immediately to the prompt.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bzr depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-celementtree           1.0.5-10   Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
ii  python-central                0.6.11     register and build utility for Pyt

Versions of packages bzr recommends:
ii  bzrtools                      1.13.0-1   Collection of tools for bzr
ii  ca-certificates               20081127   Common CA certificates
ii  python-paramiko               1.7.4-0.1  Make ssh v2 connections with pytho

Versions of packages bzr suggests:
pn  bzr-gtk                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  bzr-svn                       0.5.3-1    Bazaar plugin providing Subversion
pn  python-kerberos               <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-pycurl                 7.18.2-1   Python bindings to libcurl
ii  xdg-utils                     1.0.2-6.1  desktop integration utilities from

-- no debconf information

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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