On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:09:34 +0200 Jeroen Dekkers <jer...@dekkers.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:16:53 +0200, > Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > Re: Russ Allbery 2017-08-24 <87efs1lyc7....@hope.eyrie.org> > > > Oh, thank you! For some reason, apt-cache rdepends didn't show any of > > > those packages. All of them except dnsvi are Suggests, which basically > > > doesn't accomplish anything. > > > > > > Copying myon on this message as maintainer of dnsvi, which has a > > > dependency on "vim | editor". Christoph, we're proposing finally removing > > > the editor virtual package completely, with the patch included here: > > > > Thanks for the notice. I'm quite surprised that my dnsvi seems to be > > the only package in Debian that requires a text editor. Given that our > > base doesn't really include one, and getting dependencies Just Right > > is among the things that Debian is really good at, dropping the > > existing "editor" virtual package seems Just Wrong to me. > > Nano is priority important which means it will be installed by default > and someone who explicitly uninstalls nano will probably also install > another editor. I doubt a dependency on editor will make any > difference in practice.
I agree, I see no advantage in adding a default-editor: if we have to add complexity then it's better to just keep the virtual package. I maintain 'vis', which Provides 'editor', and I prepared a new version where this is not done anymore, but I still have to publish it. Is this issue to be considered as settled? I see that 'nano' already dropped its Provides line, so I guess it is. Paride
