Package: nvi Version: 1.79-22 Severity: normal Tags: patch [ Posted to the BTS the body of a private mail already sent to the package maintainer, having received no answer and to keep track of the issue ]
Hi Steve, as you probably remember we discussed on debian-devel the inclusion of vim-tiny in the Debian base system replacing nvi [1]. I've implemented the changes that were requested in this thread and now running vim as 'vi' gives a more vi-like editing environment (addressing AFAICT all the issues raised in the thread). I'm here at the Debcamp and I've discussed with Joey Hess the needed changes in d-i and we are ready to go ahead. The only change required in nvi is to change its priority from important to optional. Attached there's the (one-liner) patch nvi-priority.diff for the current unstable package. Still, I've another change request for the nvi package. Currently nvi priority when providing the 'vi' alternative is 30, and vim-* priorities are 10 for vim-tiny, 20 for vim-basic, 40 and up for the other vim variants. It is my belief that the initial part of the ordering should be: vim-tiny < nvi < vim-basic. Being vim-basic a full-fledged version of vim missing only stuff like support for external scripting languages (e.g. perl). Do you agree? If so please change the priority of nvi alternatives to 20 (I will change vim's to 30). The attached patch nvi-alternatives.diff implement the required change. Many thanks in advance, Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00796.html -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages nvi depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand nvi recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
diff -ur nvi-1.79.orig/debian/control nvi-1.79/debian/control --- nvi-1.79.orig/debian/control 2006-05-13 13:02:51.000000000 -0500 +++ nvi-1.79/debian/control 2006-05-13 13:03:01.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Source: nvi Section: editors -Priority: important +Priority: optional Maintainer: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.5.8 Build-Depends: debhelper, libncurses5-dev
diff -ur nvi-1.79.orig/debian/postinst nvi-1.79/debian/postinst --- nvi-1.79.orig/debian/postinst 2006-05-13 13:02:51.000000000 -0500 +++ nvi-1.79/debian/postinst 2006-05-13 13:07:07.000000000 -0500 @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ # Don't bother the user with it. update-alternatives --remove view /usr/bin/nvi >/dev/null -update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ex ex /usr/bin/nex 30 \ +update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ex ex /usr/bin/nex 20 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/ex.1.gz ex.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/nex.1.gz -update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/nvi 30 \ +update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/nvi 20 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz vi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/nvi.1.gz -update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/view view /usr/bin/nview 30 \ +update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/view view /usr/bin/nview 20 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/view.1.gz view.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/nview.1.gz # These are for the generic editor links
