On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:29:11PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > Package: darcs > Version: 2.3.0-1 > > Since get_editor and get_viewer are already checking the contents of > the EDITOR/PAGER environment variables, you should probably be > falling back to editor and pager rather than their "sensible-" > counterparts.
You're right; $PAGER is handled upstream. The purpose of using sensible-pager is to honour the system-wide pager alternative (see update-alternatives) when $PAGER isn't set. (sensible-pager will internally still prefer $PAGER.) Same as above for s/pager/editor/. Specifically, the problem arises when PAGER, VISUAL and EDITOR aren't set, and less and vi/emacs/nano aren't installed. IIRC this happens if you uncheck the "standard" tasksel task during installation. > If you really want sensible-editor/pager, darcs should declare a > Depends on sensible-utils. My apologies; sensible-utils was only recently split out of the Essential package debianutils. On reading the Debian policy manual more closely (ยง11.4), I think I should be using "editor" and "pager" instead of "sensible-editor" and "sensible-pager" respectively. Does that sound like a reasonable resolution to you, Clint? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
