Joey Hess <[email protected]> writes:
> Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> Joey Hess <[email protected]> writes:
>>> editor(1) and pager(1) and www-browser(1) are already provided by at
>>> least some apternatives for those programs. If this is really a
>>> problem, which I don't think it is. Instead I think that slave links
>>> for alternatives is common practice, and I have seen no confused users
>>> because of it.
>> So, would you second my proposal?
> Well, I note that none of editor(1), pager(1), or www-browser(1) are
> mentioned in policy at all. I might second a proposal to document them
> in policy and add x-window-manager(1) too.
Here, many years later, is a proposed patch implementing that, omitting
www-browser because it's not (yet) documented by Policy and adding
x-terminal-emulator.
Objections or seconds?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0b3c1a1..029a34c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8273,10 +8273,14 @@ done
<p>
These two files are managed through the <prgn>dpkg</prgn>
- "alternatives" mechanism. Thus every package providing an
- editor or pager must call the
- <prgn>update-alternatives</prgn> script to register these
- programs.
+ "alternatives" mechanism. Every package providing an editor or
+ pager must call the <prgn>update-alternatives</prgn> script to
+ register as an alternative for <file>/usr/bin/editor</file>
+ or <file>/usr/bin/pager</file> as appropriate. The alternative
+ should have a slave alternative
+ for <file>/usr/share/man/man1/editor.1.gz</file>
+ or <file>/usr/share/man/man1/pager.1.gz</file> pointing to the
+ corresponding manual page.
</p>
<p>
@@ -8621,7 +8625,9 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
package <tt>x-terminal-emulator</tt>. They should also
register themselves as an alternative for
<file>/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator</file>, with a priority of
- 20.
+ 20. That alternative should have a slave alternative
+ for <file>/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz</file>
+ pointing to the corresponding manual page.
</p>
<p>
@@ -8698,6 +8704,9 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
configuration, add 10 points; otherwise add none.
</item>
</list>
+ That alternative should have a slave alternative
+ for <file>/usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz</file>
+ pointing to the corresponding manual page.
</p>
</sect1>
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