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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:53:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

>> Rather than a footnote, I would suggest simply replacing "These are two
>> scripts provided in the Debian base system" with "These are two scripts
>> provided in the <package>sensible-utils</package> package".

> I concur.

I'm applying the following for the next release:

--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7954,10 +7954,10 @@ done
          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.
+         <package>sensible-utils</package> package 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>

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>