Bug#682347: mark 'editor' virtual package name as obsolete

[Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.ch>]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:16:53 +0200,
Christoph Berg wrote:
> 
> Re: Russ Allbery 2017-08-24 <[🔎] 87efs1lyc7.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
> > 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:
> 
> Thanks for the notice. I'm quite surprised that my dnsvi seems to be
> the only package in Debian that requires a text editor. Given that our
> base doesn't really include one, and getting dependencies Just Right
> is among the things that Debian is really good at, dropping the
> existing "editor" virtual package seems Just Wrong to me.

Nano is priority important which means it will be installed by default
and someone who explicitly uninstalls nano will probably also install
another editor. I doubt a dependency on editor will make any
difference in practice.

Kind regards,

Jeroen Dekkers