Manpage makes erroneous claim about BROWSER documentation
Bug #977526 reported by
Smylers
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sensible-utils (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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sensible-utils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
sensible-editor(1) (and other programs in sensible-utils) in the ‘SEE ALSO’ section of the manpagesays:
Documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL, PAGER, and BROWSER variables in environ(7)
But environ(7) doesn't actually make any mention at all of BROWSER, so looking there is of little help in determining how to set the preferred browser, so that mention should be removed.
What would be useful is to document that sensible-browser by default tries gnome-www-browser, x-www-browser, or www-browser (depending on whether it's running under Gnome, X, or neither), and so the browser choice can be set with update-
Thanks.
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lp:~kroq-gar78/ubuntu/precise/sensible-utils/fix-977526
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Diff: 32 lines (+14/-0)2 files modifieddebian/changelog (+6/-0)
sensible-editor.1 (+8/-0)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: manpage |
Changed in sensible-utils (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → kroq-gar78 (kroq-gar78) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in sensible-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in sensible-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
assignee: | kroq-gar78 (kroq-gar78) → nobody |
Changed in sensible-utils (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.