Package: mc Version: 1:4.6.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, on my system I've three (set of) packages providing alternatives for /usr/bin/view: nvi, vim(-*) and mcview-debian. These are their priorities:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ update-alternatives --display view| grep ^/ /usr/bin/nview - priority 30 /usr/bin/mcview-debian - priority 100 /usr/bin/vim.basic - priority 30 /usr/bin/vim.full - priority 60 /usr/bin/vim.tiny - priority 10 [ I know from the nvi maintainer the nview will be lowered to 20 ] I found annoying that mcview-debian has the higher priority, especially because "view" was historically yet another way of running the 'vi' editor. Could you please lower the priority so that it is at least lesser than that of vim.basic. A good solution IMO would be 25. Wearing the hat of a vim maintainer: this will ensure that people installing 'mc' on top of a base system will have mc per default (since both nvi and vim-tiny are lower than it), but people installing 'vim' will have that per default, winning over 'mc'. If you prefer, being a discussion which require agreement on maintainers of several packages we can move it to debian-devel. I honestly think that the consensus will be the one outline above, but I maybe wrong. Of course a similar argument exists for the alternatives of /usr/bin/editor. Many thanks for your attention, Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mc depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-22 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libslang2 2.0.6-2 The S-Lang programming library - r mc recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
