On Mon 30 May 2022, Paul Slootman wrote: > > .editrc is not even looked for according to strace, at least not in > version 3.1-20191231-2+b1 (I'm using it with the mariadb mysql client).
I've since discovered that the version in testing: 3.1-20210910-1 does in fact read the editrc file. According to the upstream changelog: 2021-05-22 Jess Thrysoee [...] * src/el.c: editrc not read on systems without issetugid Patch by Trevor Cordes This version installs just fine on stable (Bullseye). Hopes this helps someone with this problem. Paul