[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#594444: libvirt-bin: "virsh edit <domain>" should fall back to /usr/bin/editor if $EDITOR is not set

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: normal

I have a system with /usr/bin/editor set to something other than vi,
thanks to the alternatives subsystem.

But when i run "virsh edit foo", i still get dropped into vi, unless i
set $EDITOR explicitly.

It seems to me that either it should fall back to /usr/bin/editor, or
else virsh on debian should strip out all the editor-selection code
and just invoke sensible-editor, which will do the fallback for
it. (sensible-utils is Priority: required)

thanks for maintaining libvirt for debian!

    --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112          add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3          0.6.26-1       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.26-1       Avahi common library
ii  libblkid1                 2.17.2-3.1     block device id library
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap-ng0                0.6.4-1        An alternate posix capabilities li
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.48-3    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11               1.4.5-2        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26               2.8.6-1        the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libnl1                    1.1-5          library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libparted0debian1         2.3-1          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0             0.12.0-1       Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libreadline6              6.1-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-5 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0                  160-1          libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-3.1     Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0                  0.8.3-1        library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0            4.0.1~rc5-1    Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                   2.7.7.dfsg-4   GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate                 3.7.8-6        Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils               1.4-5         Utilities for configuring the Linu
pn  dnsmasq-base               <none>        (no description available)
pn  gawk                       <none>        (no description available)
ii  iptables                   1.4.8-3       administration tools for packet fi
pn  libxml2-utils              <none>        (no description available)
pn  netcat-openbsd             <none>        (no description available)
ii  qemu-kvm                   0.12.5+dfsg-1 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit-1                   <none>     (no description available)

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