Bug#682347: mark 'editor' virtual package name as obsolete
Dropping Artem, whose email address no longer works.
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:03:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> In previous discussions, no one seemed to feel that it was helpful as a
>> virtual package. Virtual packages are only useful for another package
>> to depend on (or recommend or suggest), or for someone to manually use
>> as in "apt-get install editor", neither of which seem like useful
>> actions here. (Or to conflict with, but that's obviously wrong here.)
>> No packages currently declare any type of dependency on editor.
> Note that there *are* a handful packages which still depend/recommend/suggest
> editor and will need bugs raised along with those for the editors providing
> it.
> $ apt-cache showpkg editor
> Package: editor
> Versions:
> Reverse Depends:
> dnsvi,editor
> xpaint,editor
> udo-doc-en,editor
> udo-doc-de,editor
> libproc-invokeeditor-perl,editor
> [...]
Oh, thank you! For some reason, apt-cache rdepends didn't show any of
those packages. All of them except dnsvi are Suggests, which basically
doesn't accomplish anything.
Copying myon on this message as maintainer of dnsvi, which has a
dependency on "vim | editor". Christoph, we're proposing finally removing
the editor virtual package completely, with the patch included here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682347#20
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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