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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add most debian patches to nvi.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:03:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873874w508.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54BFBB39.5030200@gmail.com> (Marek Benc's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:44:09 +0100")

Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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 :)

I agree with Andreas: there are 20 patches, and that level of patching
goes beyond our mission, IMO.

I would rather leave it as is if it’s usable, or remove it, or point to
a new upstream if there is one.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-21 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54BFBAED.3090502@gmail.com>
2015-01-21 14:44 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add most debian patches to nvi Marek Benc
2015-01-21 15:03   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-01-21 15:25     ` Marek Benc
2015-01-22 16:05       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 16:39         ` Marek Benc
2015-01-22 16:45           ` Marek Benc
2015-01-22 20:52           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 22:17             ` Marek Benc
2015-01-23  8:48               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-20 18:20 Marek Benc
2015-01-21  9:35 ` Andreas Enge

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