Hello James, Am Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 04:08:49PM -0400 schrieb James McCoy: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 03:34:46PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Please ship the po plugin again. This plugin is key for all > > translators in Debian using vim. It would be a serious regression for > > all these users in Trixie. > > As stated in the changelog and referenced bug, there's no license > information for po.vim. I get that this is a regression, but it shouldn't > have been included in the package in the first place since it's not clear > whether the plugin is distributable under a DFSG license.
I just read the original bug. The request was to move the scripts to
non-free (which is still not very good, but at least the po plugin
would be still shipped).
Would that an option at all?
You stated "Most of the scripts … are of questionable utility."
I don't know about the others, but the po plugin is *very* useful.
Without it, my life[1] a translator, translation maintainer and
manpages-l10n maintainer would be *very* hard.
Some years ago I tried to get the patch in #611544 working,
unfortunately without success, due to my very limited knowledge of vim
internals.
Also, maybe asking the author to clarify the license? (But, of course,
the e-mail address my no longer work, I've seen this in many other
instances, unfortuantely).
> Also, if it were to be reintroduced, I would rather have it in a separate
> package. The Vim addon packaging has evolved a lot since vim-scripts was
> created and it's now easier to package addons individually. I still need to
> break up vim-scripts, but that will have to wait until post-Trixie.
Well, I'm completely open to have it in any package, but shipping
Trixie without the po plugin would be a huge regression.
Thanks for your efforst!
Greetings
Helge
[1] And I know several other translators who use vim with this plugin,
who would probably also be saddened after the upgrade to Trixie.
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