Bug#640263: debian-policy: Clarify policy section 9.9 - Environment variables

[Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.2.0
Severity: normal

Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of
section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it
implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables like PATH, or if
all programs must include themself a sensible default PATH as fallback.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii  doc-base                      0.10.2     utilities to manage online documen

-- no debconf information