Bug#724271: libproc-invokeeditor-perl: FTBFS: Couldn't find an editor: No such file or directory

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: retitle -1 libproc-invokeeditor-perl: FTBFS with nano installed and ed and nvi not installed

-=| Damyan Ivanov, 23.09.2013 09:25:44 +0300 |=-
> Package: src:libproc-invokeeditor-perl
> Version: 1.06-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: FTBFS
> 
> This package fails to build in a clean current sid pbuilder chroot on amd64:
> 
> t/01_require.t ....... ok
> Couldn't find an editor: No such file or directory at /tmp/buildd/libproc-invokeeditor-perl-1.06/blib/lib/Proc/InvokeEditor.pm line 176.
> # Looks like you planned 8 tests but ran 6.

As it seems, the chroot was not so clean -- it had 'nano' installed, 
and nano 'Provides: editor', which satisfies the build-dependency of 
'ed|nvi|editor'. However, the code never checks for /usr/bin/editor, 
so it fails.

We still have a bug -- either the code needs to support 
/usr/bin/editor, or the |editor part of the (build-)dependency should 
be dropped.
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