Bug#320222: sdiff calling editor fails (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this from the Debian bug system:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jaap Eldering <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:59:16 +0200
Subject: Bug#320222: sdiff calling editor fails

Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-11
Severity: important

when running sdiff in interactive mode (with -o option), it fails in the 
end with the message "sdiff: subsidiary program `<editor>' failed" where 
<editor> is set by the EDITOR environment variable (or ed by default).

This seems to happen independently of the editor used (even /bin/true 
fails) and also with a version I compiled from GNU sources. The bug is 
not present in the woody version of sdiff (2.7).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages diff depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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