On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:14:09PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Jordi, I imagine if you set the priority the same as joe's, and nothing > breaks, then go with it. :) I imagine the maintainer of joe did the > right thing. Hehe. :) Umh. The thing is there is "an issue" with the priority in the alternative system. Who decides which editor goes first? This should be documented in the policy, I guess. Um. I think I'll cc: just in case. > But, if no one else on -mentors helps you, it might not hurt just to > contact the maintainers for joe, jed, emacs, vim, nvi, etc and asktheir > collective opinion. :) Ouch. I'll do. For the time being, I'll release the nano package with the priority=20, so that's how it will stay for potato hopefully. Thanks. > On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 02:14:17AM +0100, Jordi wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Nano needs to provide an alternative for editor, and browsing the postinst > > files of other editors, I saw this on joe: > > update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/joe 70 \ > > --slave /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz editor.1.gz /usr/man/man1/joe.1.gz > > > > How do I decide my priority? For example, vim has a 20 priority. I have not > > seen anything in the policy regarding this. > > > > Also, I see that vim, elvis and nvi provide an alternative for "vi", (in > > vim's case, priority 20). I think it's not against the policy if I provide > > an alternative for "pico"? Would this be evil? I think it wouldn't affect > > the original pico in any way, and it's a good way to provide a free > > replacement for a non-free package. Thoughts? > > If everything is ok, I'll upload a new nano package this night. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jordi > > > > -- > > Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, > > ka Oskuro in RL-MUD || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux > > > > http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E > > telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E > > > > -- > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into > your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, ka Oskuro in RL-MUD || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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