On 10/18/2015 06:15 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Package: python3-editor > Version: 0.4-1 > Severity: important > Justification: Policy § 11.4 > > Dear Maintainer, > > The Debian Policy § 11.4 (Editors and pagers) [1] says: > > | Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use the EDITOR or > | PAGER environment variable to determine the editor or pager the user wishes > | to use. If these variables are not set, the programs /usr/bin/editor and > | /usr/bin/pager should be used, respectively. > > This package honors the environment variable but does not honor > /usr/bin/editor: > > $ [ -z "$EDITOR" ] && echo "EDITOR is unset" > EDITOR is unset > $ readlink -f /usr/bin/editor > /usr/bin/vim.tiny > $ /usr/bin/editor --version | head -n1 > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 17 2015 03:36:20) > $ python3 -c "import editor; print(editor.get_editor())" > /bin/nano > > [1]: > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.4 > > -- > Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Dmitry, 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. that's for the "bylaws" of Debian. 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. Anyways, I'd recommend you to send such a bug report upstream rather than downstream in Debian. I do not have time to work on this kind of bugs, considering the amount of packages I maintain. Therefore, unless you (or someone else) provide a patch, and because I need to keep bug triaging in a good shape, I'll be forced to close this bug after some time with no solution to fix it. Your thoughts? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
