Package: sudo Version: 1.6.9p9-1 Severity: wishlist >From the changelog: > * make default editor be /usr/bin/vi instead of /usr/bin/editor, so that > the command 'visudo' invokes a vi variant by default as documented, > closes: #388659
And as a result, non-vi-users who upgrade from Etch and then run "sudo -e /etc/fstab" will get a hideous surprise: instead of opening it in their favourite text-editor (the one that worked yesterday), instead it'll chuck it into something so notoriously unintuitive that they'll be lucky if they can even get vi to let go of it. If there are vi users out there who don't have the /usr/bin/editor symlink configured to point at their preferred sourcecode-mungeing utility, that's not something to punish everybody else for. The reporter of bug #388659 should have been informed that there are already several similarly named commands in Debian (vidir, vipw, vigr...) that don't default to vi in this rude fashion, which demonstrates that it isn't reasonable to expect such behaviour from one named "visudo". It's true that the option of using the alternatives system wasn't available for the authors of the upstream documentation, and is therefore not mentioned in the man page; but extra distro-specific integration features like this are exactly why I installed the packaged version of sudo instead of using upstream tarballs in the first place. Besides, "man visudo" still doesn't actually tell Debian users how the visudo binary on their system is going to behave, since they don't know whether it was compiled --with-env-editor. For that they have to read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/sudo/. Please, please revert this change and amend README.Debian to document it as an extra Debian-specific feature, along with the others it already covers. If you want help with that, I'm happy to volunteer some assistance as long as I don't have to edit it in vi! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.custom Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages sudo depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l sudo recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
