[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#802232: python3-editor: Does not use /usr/bin/editor

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Package: python3-editor
Version: 0.4-1
Severity: important
Justification: Policy § 11.4

Dear Maintainer,

The Debian Policy § 11.4 (Editors and pagers) [1] says:

| Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use the EDITOR or
| PAGER environment variable to determine the editor or pager the user wishes
| to use. If these variables are not set, the programs /usr/bin/editor and
| /usr/bin/pager should be used, respectively. 

This package honors the environment variable but does not honor /usr/bin/editor:

  $ [ -z "$EDITOR" ] && echo "EDITOR is unset"
  EDITOR is unset
  $ readlink -f /usr/bin/editor
  /usr/bin/vim.tiny
  $ /usr/bin/editor --version | head -n1
  VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 17 2015 03:36:20)
  $ python3 -c "import editor; print(editor.get_editor())"
  /bin/nano

[1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.4

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Dmitry Shachnev
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