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Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages



On 3/22/20 3:48 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:06:11AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Debian Ports is affected by this problem in particular because we don't have
>> the cruft feature in mini-DAK [3], so every time I build a debian-installer
>> image and forget checking whether vim build successfully on every architecture,
>> the particular debian-installer image becomes unusable because debootstrap
>> cannot install vim-tiny as its version mismatches the version of vim-common.
>>
> The debian-ports archive maintainers could decide to change vim-tiny's
> priority on their side, without imposing that decision on the debian
> archive.

And the opinion of the vim maintainer that he would like to get rid of
the vim-tiny package is not relevant?

Adrian

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