Dear Policy team,
as suggested by Chris Lamb [suggestion], I'd like to request your input
on #776413. It is concerned with the priority of the ed package. There
are two conflicting requests. Some users request ed to have priority
"optional", other users request it to be "important". Please, take a
Lev Lamberov writes ("Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> Some time ago (see, #416585) the priority of the ed package has been
> changed to "optional", but ed is still a part of POSIX standard. For me
> personally the main issue here is the interpretation o
Hi
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:49:58AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> This makes it sound theoretical, or a question of breaking people's
> `finger macros'. That is indeed annoying. But there is a much more
> serious practical point, which Paul Hardy touches on.
How many people are using "ed" and n
Bastian Blank writes ("Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:49:58AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This makes it sound theoretical, or a question of breaking people's
> > `finger macros'. That is indeed annoying. B
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> I don't think ex is in the base system. Are you suggesting that an
> implementation of it should be added ? On my system here it seems to
> be provided by vim.tiny and /usr/bin/ex is 20x the size of
Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> Bastian Blank writes ("Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> > Serial lines have absolutely no problem with vim or similar stuff. ANSI
> > command sequences work on all
What I don't understand is: why are we even having this conversation ?
What good reason can possibly have motivated #416585 ? Certainly not
the tiny use of disk space in small installs. The only motivation I
can guess at is a desire to be tidy and delete "obsolete" things.
That would be a very v
Hello Lev,
On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 12:56PM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote:
> as suggested by Chris Lamb [suggestion], I'd like to request your input
> on #776413. It is concerned with the priority of the ed package. There
> are two conflicting requests. Some users request ed to have priority
> "optional
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