[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#802232: Bug#802232: python3-editor: Does not use /usr/bin/editor

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/fmoo/python-editor/issues/4

Hi Thomas,

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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:33:14 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> It is my understanding that, within the Debian policy, "must" and
> "should" are important words. Here, a program *must* respect $EDITOR
> (which python-editor does), which is mandatory. But python-editor
> doesn't implement /usr/bin/editor, which it *should* (ie: a
> recommendation). Therefore, there's no policy violation.

Right, this is why this bug is not RC. If you think severity: important
is too high, feel free to downgrade it (it's your right as a maintainer).

> Now, as for my own opinion, $EDITOR is indeed very important, as it is
> the user's explicit choice, while /usr/bin/editor only points to
> whatever the system double-guess the user may like, so it's not very
> useful.

/usr/bin/editor may still be the user's explicit choice (if they used
update-alternatives).

> Anyways, I'd recommend you to send such a bug report upstream rather
> than downstream in Debian.

Done, sent a bug upstream. I also don't have much time to spend on this,
but I think just prepending "editor" to the list in get_default_editors()
should work.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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