On 2006-11-15 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: nano
> Version: 1.9.99pre3-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: etch upgrade bug, RC on Andreas Barth's advice.
[...]
> i upgraded my powerbook from sarge to etch yesterday. Before i had vim as the
> default editor, and after the upgrade, it seems nano seems to be the default
> editor,
- nano did not change, the alternative for /usr/bin/editor is
installed in both sid (1.9.99pre3-1 here, but 2.0.01-1 should be
identical according to the changelog.) and sarge as 40.
- vim did change, regular vim setup itself with priority 120 in sarge
(and vim-gtk diverted /usr/bin/vim). In sid the alternative
priorities ranges from 10 to 60 for the different binary packages.
I cannot find proper documention for the lowereded vim priorities in
debian/changelog, but iirc there was some discussion on d-d. The
striking argument was something like this iirc:
- Newbies being dumped into any vi variant should not happen by
default.
- Non-newbies can easily change the default editor. Either by changing
the alternatives if they have root privileges or as shown below.
> and there is no obvious way for an end user to change that.
export EDITOR=vim
See policy 11.4.
cu andreas
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