Hi! On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 15:43:02 +0200, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.22.0 > Severity: normal
> * What led up to the situation? > > using: dpkg-source --commit > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > I used `update-alternatives --config editor` because I want to edit with > vim. > (actually it became the default editor already by manually install > vim-gtk3) > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > dpkg-source uses nano > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > dpkg-source using vim (or just call `editor`) It should already be using the following list in order when available: sensible-editor, $VISUAL, $EDITOR, vi So, you might want to check whether some of these are set (directly or indirectly) to «nano». If so, then this would not seem like a problem in dpkg-source, but I notice this is not documented in the man page, so I guess even then I'll document that. Otherwise this might need to cloned and reassigned somewhere else I think? Thanks, Guillem
