Bug#987675: sensible-utils: select-editor misbehaves on missing HOME variable
Package: sensible-utils Version: 0.0.14 Followup-For: Bug #987675 Control: block -1 by 991984 This bug is really hard to fix. Even your proposition to use getent will fail because under env -i $USER is not set. So for now, sensible-utils will check if $HOME is set, and if not set use fallback to EDITOR, SELECTED_EDITOR, and editor Note that nano should also be fixed see #991984 Bastien
Bug#987675: sensible-utils: select-editor misbehaves on missing HOME variable
Package: sensible-utils Version: 0.0.14 Severity: normal Hi! The select-editor program misbehaves when the environment does not contain the HOME variable set. For normal users this means the code will be unable to write to «/.selected_editor», for root that means the code will pollute the «/» directory. Please check whether HOME is set, and otherwise initialize it with a sensible value, f.ex. from «getent passwd $user|cut -d: -f6» or similar. An easy way to test this is with «env -i sensible-editor». Thanks, Guillem
