Bug#987675: sensible-utils: select-editor misbehaves on missing HOME variable

Package: sensible-utils Version: 0.0.14 Followup-For: Bug #987675 Control: block -1 by 991984 This bug is really hard to fix. Even your proposition to use getent will fail because under env -i $USER is not set. So for now, sensible-utils will check if $HOME is set, and if not set use fallback

Bug#987675: sensible-utils: select-editor misbehaves on missing HOME variable

Package: sensible-utils Version: 0.0.14 Severity: normal Hi! The select-editor program misbehaves when the environment does not contain the HOME variable set. For normal users this means the code will be unable to write to «/.selected_editor», for root that means the code will pollute the «/»