Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:

Christian> I think this is actually a bug of less or debian-policy, it
Christian> a bug of your preferred editor not providing
Christian> /usr/bin/editor. Please assign this bug to the editor
Christian> package.

	Should this then not go into policy in some way? Like:

    All general purpose text editors (as opposed to quake level
    editors etc) should provide a symlink in /usr/bin/editor using
    update alternatives.

	Does anything do it now? 
__> egrep /usr/bin/editor /var/lib/dpkg/info/*
egrep: /var/lib/dpkg/info/libfcgi1.md5sums: Permission denied
__> egrep editor /var/lib/dpkg/info/*
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debianutils.list:/usr/bin/sensible-editor
 [ bunch of non-text-editor files]


	manoj
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