I had the same question but for the package in 14.04. Debian's
maintainer said in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=114358:
The 'vim' package contains a normal version, which doesn't include
the clientserver feature. But any other of the gui-enabled vim
packages (vim-{gtk,perl,python...}) are big versions which are
compiled with +clientserver in. You can use any of these to get what
you need.
I installed vim-gnome which has +clientserver, but I can still run vi
from the command-line.
Just background info for those who found this issue via search.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #114358
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=114358
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