Bug#541537: debian-policy: note about sensible-{editor,pager}

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
> 
> Due to potential confusion about sensible-utils being only de facto
> Essential and whether or not packages should be declaring dependencies
> on it.  Something like this footnote may be helpful.
> 
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index bcbaacb..57c5386 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -7953,11 +7953,13 @@ done
>  	  EDITOR or PAGER variables, that program may be configured to
>  	  use <file>/usr/bin/sensible-editor</file> and
>  	  <file>/usr/bin/sensible-pager</file> as the editor or pager
> -	  program respectively.  These are two scripts provided in the
> -	  Debian base system that check the EDITOR and PAGER variables
> -	  and launch the appropriate program, and fall back to
> -	  <file>/usr/bin/editor</file> and <file>/usr/bin/pager</file> if the
> -	  variable is not set.
> +	  program respectively.<footnote>A package making unconditional
> +	  use of one of these programs must declare a dependency on
> +	  the package containing them.</footnote> These are two scripts
> +	  provided in the Debian base system that check the EDITOR and
> +	  PAGER variables and launch the appropriate program, and fall
> +	  back to <file>/usr/bin/editor</file> and
> +	  <file>/usr/bin/pager</file> if the variable is not set.
>  	</p>
>  
>  	<p>

seconded

Cheers

Luk