Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2020-04-05): > On 3/28/20 5:16 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2020-03-17): > >> I think enabling vi in the busybox configuration is actually the best > >> approach to address this problem as this way we continue to ship vi > >> with debian-ins

Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-04-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/28/20 5:16 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2020-03-17): >> I think enabling vi in the busybox configuration is actually the best >> approach to address this problem as this way we continue to ship vi >> with debian-installer and at the same time get rid of the vim >> d

Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-03-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2020-03-17): > I think enabling vi in the busybox configuration is actually the best > approach to address this problem as this way we continue to ship vi > with debian-installer and at the same time get rid of the vim > dependency which is regularly causing headach

Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-03-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/17/20 10:38 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 09:13:33 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I think enabling vi in the busybox configuration is actually the best >> approach >> to address this problem as this way we continue to ship vi with >> debian-installer >> and a

Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-03-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 09:13:33 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I think enabling vi in the busybox configuration is actually the best approach > to address this problem as this way we continue to ship vi with > debian-installer > and at the same time get rid of the vim dependency which i

Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-03-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Simon! On 3/16/20 12:31 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Steps to reproduce: > > - Install a chroot/container > - Install busybox > > Expected results: > > - If a more fully-featured vi is installed (vim, vim-*, nvi, etc.) then it > provides the vi and view commands in PATH > - Otherwise, "vi f

Bug#954075: busybox: provide a low-priority alternative for vi, view, editor

2020-03-16 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.30.1-4 Severity: wishlist Steps to reproduce: - Install a chroot/container - Install busybox Expected results: - If a more fully-featured vi is installed (vim, vim-*, nvi, etc.) then it provides the vi and view commands in PATH - Otherwise, "vi foo.txt" runs busy