On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
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> I have been somewhat confused by this thread. I am finally starting to get
> the idea of what is being discussed. At first I thought we were "again"
> discussing the "editor" virtual package (an idea that was discussed and
> vetoed)
>
> As the maintainer of ae, this is the first time that I have heard about
> ae's responsibilities for providing /usr/bin/editor. I don't remember
> there ever being a discussion on this issue. (If it was discussed on
> debian-policy this could be the reason. I don't subscribe to
> debian-policy)
This issue was discussed on debian-devel (I think at that time,
debian-policy did not exist yet). Ian J. posted an excellent solution to
the editor/pager problem and noone objected so I went ahead and prepared
the necessary policy changes. I think they were included in some of my
"Policy Weekly" postings.
Anyways, I'll send an announcement to debian-devel soon which explains the
new policy so that the maintainers of all editors/pagers can update their
packages.
> Can someone point me to the relevant chapters in the policy
> manual?
Policy Manual 2.3.0.0, Section 4.3 Editors and pagers
Thanks,
Chris
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