-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >But this is no bug in less but in all the editor packages that install an >editor but do not provide /usr/bin/editor. At least the editors in the >base system (I think ae and tiny-vi) should provide /usr/bin/editor. >Please reassign this bug to the appropriate base package.
Okay. It's a bug in the dependency system since less is depending on a feature implemented in essential package(s) that hasn't been fulfilled yet. So, should this be filed against base? ae? all editors? I guess if someone upgrades to unstable, they get unpredictable results at times. I'm just trying to fulfill dependencies so that the seemless upgrade piecemeal promised by Debian works. >Sorry, but I still don't understand your point. I totally agree with you >that the current situation is not nice, but this is neither a bug in the >policy nor in less. The bug is that the "editor" and "pager" packages have >not been updated to latest policy (or the maintainers simply forgot about >this change). The point is that there is no "editor" package and I can't file a dependency on one since policy specifically says I can't. >As soon as at least the base system provides /usr/bin/editor and >/usr/bin/pager, there wouldn't be a difference if someone would check the >env vars and fall back to /usr/bin/{editor,pager} _or_ would use >/usr/bin/sensible-* in the first place. But since it doesn't, there is a difference, *right now*. It's that sensible-editor provides a reasonable error if, for some reason, /usr/bin/editor doesn't exist and the envar EDITOR isn't set. editor doesn't. The reason /usr/bin/editor doesn't exist could also be that something got screwed up with update-alternatives as well. Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNDgRRI4wrq++1Ls5AQHJqAP/ZKbetQPRAGG2nnRLtYbNZ29NlTPORrto Jkp+JH94s/DFv5hArxnZEtdY0dmwtncgWTLVI5r1+nuvPZfCLNEoQ0IiC9Lp1kNQ h8yiVcms5KRBkQpT6uwaNLZNwMrG5KBay6+z9AA0YgJUpFrcyEuUow66jppKUkou IhptMrlVQNs= =z9sL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----