[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1132886: bat: Batcat doesn't respect the PAGER environment variable

Wesley Schwengle wesley at schwengle.net
Tue Apr 7 02:46:45 BST 2026


Package: bat
Version: 0.26.1+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: wesley at schwengle.net

Dear Maintainer,

When I use --pager I still need to supply less, it doesn't respect my PAGER
env. Which is suboptimal at best.

>From rc policy I quote:

  (k) Editors and Pagers

    Packages that need to launch an editor or pager must use the EDITOR
    or PAGER environment variables if set, or fall back to /usr/bin/editor
    or /usr/bin/pager.
    Ref: 11.4

Batcat doesn't respect this policy.

Cheers,
Wesley

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental'), (10, 'stable-updates'), (10, 'stable-security'), (10, 'oldstable-updates'), (10, 'oldstable-security'), (10, 'oldoldstable'), (10, 'stable'), (10, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.19.6+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages bat depends on:
ii  libc6        2.42-14
ii  libgcc-s1    16-20260322-1
ii  libgit2-1.9  1.9.2+ds-6
ii  libonig5     6.9.10-1

bat recommends no packages.

bat suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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