Hi,
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 06:27:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > Sean Whitton writes:
>
> >> 2. Do we need to include any text saying *why* the /etc/default practice
> >>is a bad idea? I couldn't come up with a succinct way to state it.
> >>In general, I think
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Bug #880992 [debian-policy] debian-policy should not recommend running editor
using absolute path
Added tag(s) pending; removed tag(s) patch.
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Sean Whitton writes:
> On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> not set, the commands "editor" and "pager" should be used,
>>> respectively. These commands can be invoked explicitly (e.g. as
>>> /usr/bin/editor), or through a $PATH search (e.g. as edit
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think there are three options, and I'd love to get feedback on which of
> those three options we should take.
>
> 1. Status quo: there is an undocumented editor virtual package, Policy
>says that nothing has to provide or depend
Hello,
On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> not set, the commands "editor" and "pager" should be used,
>> respectively. These commands can be invoked explicitly (e.g. as
>> /usr/bin/editor), or through a $PATH search (e.g. as editor).
>
>> ?
>
> This wording seems fine to m
Hello,
On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm not sure where we landed with this, but it feels like the
> single-HTML output from Sphnix is kind of broken, and publishing that
> on the web site has caused various problems. I'm not sure how to get
> to the multi-page version on www.debian
Hello,
On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Seconded the above change and with or without the wording change
> discussed in the other part of this thread.
Thank you for your review.
Here is the current diff awaiting a final second:
diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-rel
Hello,
On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> commit e0759206c2960f3fd6427583f10c4f87b39b152e (HEAD ->
> bug885219-rra) Author: Russ Allbery Date: Mon Dec 25
> 18:06:25 2017
>
> Allow libc to install files in /lib64
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst index
> 7
Re: Russ Allbery 2017-12-26 <87wp1as3na@hope.eyrie.org>
> 1. Status quo: there is an undocumented editor virtual package, Policy
>says that nothing has to provide or depend on it, and some random
>collection of editors provide it. I think this is a bad place to be,
>so I would hope
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