Package: vim-tiny Version: 2:7.4.712-2 Severity: wishlist It would be really useful if vim-tiny was put back to providing a vim alternative link. The current setup is illogical and confusing (rather contrary to the changelog entry from 2008 that claimed this state was made to avoid being confusing).
The changelog entry being: * [f7bfa57] Don't install vim alternatives for vim-tiny. vim-tiny is built to act like vi, so the vim alternative just causes more confusion than it's worth (by default). The fact I install a package with vim in the name probably means I would like the vim command to exist. And certainly these days vim-tiny behaves rather much as I would expect vim to behave and not at all as I expect vi to behave. It is a perfectly useable editor. I am used to typing vim to edit files. I do not type vi, because I don't want to use some other limited functionality vi clone. Being able to have a nice small vim on some space limited systems and still be able to just type vim as I always do would really be nice. Having to type vim.tiny is just odd and confusing. This has been bothering me for years, but I have always just resolved it by throwing away a bunch of disk space by installing any other vim package to solve the problem. Without the alternatives link for vim, the vim-tiny package is of no use from my point of view. It does not give me a vim command in the path contrary to the name of the package and it's description. Please give us back the vim link that just makes sense to have. Clearly its removal has in fact been causing confusion rather than avoiding it. -- Package-specific info: --- real paths of main Vim binaries --- /usr/bin/vi is /usr/bin/vim.gtk /usr/bin/vim is /usr/bin/vim.gtk /usr/bin/gvim is /usr/bin/vim.gtk -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages vim-tiny depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii vim-common 2:7.4.712-2 vim-tiny recommends no packages. Versions of packages vim-tiny suggests: pn indent <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org