Bug#749334: nvi: Homepage header out of date
Package: nvi
Version: 1.81.6-11+b1
Severity: minor
Hi Henrique or who else is interested in adopting nvi,
the Homepage header of nvi currently points to a no more exiting web
page (http://www.kotnet.org/~skimo/nvi/).
The "older" homepage of nvi is http://www.bostic.com/vi/ and nowadays
redirects to https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/vi/, but
is horribly out of date (offers version 1.79 for download).
But it seems as if there's a at least some development (or maintenance)
going on at http://repo.or.cz/w/nvi.git so I recommend to use that as
upstream homepage for now.
I also suspect it may improve the package if a current snapshot of that
git repo would be used as base for the nvi package.
One obvious disadvantage of that snapshot is that it contains more
embedded code copies than before, see e.g. this commit:
http://repo.or.cz/w/nvi.git/commitdiff/e72e57ed514934ea574737e7571f1bd4ed539d42
But since the .orig.tar.gz needs to be build from a git snapshot anyway,
repackaging it to exclude embedded code copies shouldn't be an issue.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nvi depends on:
ii libc6 2.18-7
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28-3
ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140118-1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140118-1
Versions of packages nvi recommends:
ii nvi-doc 1.81.6-11
nvi suggests no packages.
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