Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-10-07 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dale Scheetz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >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 di

Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-10-05 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-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 provid

Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-10-02 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >This discussion is getting too complicated for me :-) I don't know if >things are clear now, or not. So let me try to summarize. Sounds good. >1. The policy manual 2.3.0.0 contains a section `4.

Re: perl-base

1997-09-23 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >(I CC this mail to debian-policy and to Klee. Hope you don't mind.) Adding more people in is fine. >dpkg-perl is a collection of Perl modules to access dpkg's databases. It >can be used in postin

Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-09-23 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >> If the envar EDITOR isn't set, less uses /usr/bin/editor. This is >> problematic since there are no editor packages yet that register that as >> an alternative. So, possibly it should depend on

less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-09-23 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Package: less Version: 332-2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- If the envar EDITOR isn't set, less uses /usr/bin/editor. This is problematic since there are no editor packages yet that register that as an alternative. So, possibly it should depend on /usr/bin/sensible-editor since that's actual