Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/fmoo/python-editor/issues/4
Hi Thomas, [I am not subscribed, please CC me when you reply.] 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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