bug#26792: Acknowledgement (Fix output of --help in package fish)

[ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>]

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> > I just created a new user which uses fish as the login shell and
> > I need to update this patch. There is more to be embeded for fish.
> 
> This is similar to the "mc" situation.
> 
> In a plain fish profile with no bash whatsoever, your default $PATH is:
> 
> echo $PATH
> /usr /usr/bin

A correction: $PATH = /bin /usr/bin

> the major issue when logging in is:
> 
> 1. grep is not found.
> 2. hostname is not found.
> 
> The question to think about is, how do we provide access to the basic
> applications (grep, awk, hostname, etc) fish needs? Substituting a minimal
> set of files where necessary seems like the best working solution for a
> system which does not assume any other shell and therefore does initially
> export no $PATH other than /usr and /usr/bin.
> 
> The very least I want people to experience is no error immediately after
> first login. This happens at the moment.
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