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Asked: June 15, 20262026-06-15T22:34:05+00:00 2026-06-15T22:34:05+00:00

On Ubuntu precise I am calling dpkg -q –commit ./ patchsetname When I do

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On Ubuntu precise

I am calling “dpkg -q –commit ./ patchsetname”

When I do this it decides to open an editor using the select editor binary.

I want to suppress that. Any thoughts?

I’d rather not have to interrupt the exec syscall with a shared library and filter for the editor query. There should be a cleaner way of doing this.

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    2026-06-15T22:34:06+00:00Added an answer on June 15, 2026 at 10:34 pm

    I just fixed this with the following:

    EDITOR=/bin/true dpkg-source -q --commit . patchsetname
    

    This will (obviously) use true instead of nano and at least on kubuntu this seems to work fine.

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