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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add most debian patches to nvi.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:44:09 +0100
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On 01/21/2015 10:35 AM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> The number of patches looks quite frightening. From the README of nvi, the
> current version dates from 2007. Now if upstream is dead and does not fix
> patches, it might be preferable to remove the package altogether. Is there no
> viable alternative that is still alive? Or vim in legacy mode?

I guess there is vim, which can be configured to behave pretty similar
to vi, but I personally think that having variety is good. Of course, I
won't object if you remove the package, because objectively, it is
obsolete, and I can always put it into my private package path :)

>
> Andreas
>

Marek