[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#916042: lxde: leafpad is not fit for default editor

[Juhani Numminen]

Package: lxde
Version: 10
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: kretcheu at gmail.com, sfkrystal at gmail.com, andrej at rep.kiev.ua

Hi,

The metapackage lxde currently depends on "leafpad | mousepad" which
in practice makes leafpad the default text editor for lxde. I think
leafpad is not suitable to be a default editor because of its 
long-standing bugs:

- UTF-8 mishandling
    https://bugs.debian.org/913838
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/800059
- data loss when used with ssh/sftp/samba
    https://bugs.debian.org/890416
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/708829
- middle click paste not working
    https://bugs.debian.org/511827
- UTF-16 encoded file not displayed
    https://bugs.debian.org/819909
- last line of selection is not indented
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1460311

I think any of those is not a problem for the two alternative editors,
mousepad and featherpad. Please consider dropping the dependency
on leafpad from lxde.


Thanks,

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Juhani