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Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.



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Dale Scheetz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>As the maintainer of ae, this is the first time that I have heard about
>ae's responsibilities for providing /usr/bin/editor. I don't remember
>there ever being a discussion on this issue. (If it was discussed on
>debian-policy this could be the reason. I don't subscribe to
>debian-policy) Can someone point me to the relevant chapters in the policy
>manual?

I'm not on debian-policy either.  I found out about this due to a bug
against less for pager.  See 4.3 Editors and pagers in 2.3.0.0 of the
debian-policy manual.

Darren
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