Package: vim-gnome
Severity: normal
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs
The difference between vim-gtk and vim-gnome is that vim-gnome links
libgnome, a library for integration with old GNOME technologies. However,
we haven't shipped GNOME 2 since squeeze, making libgnome rather useless,
and the best vim version for GNOME 3 users at this point is vim-gtk (or
vim-gtk3, if/when it's stable enough - I've sent a patch on a separate
bug to stop it crashing on Wayland). I suspect the vim-gnome name might
be misleading vim-on-GNOME users into installing the wrong one.
The GNOME maintainers would like to get rid of libgnome and libbonobo, but
there's a really long tail of packages that still link to them. Because
there's already a replacement (vim-gtk or vim-gtk3), I would suggest
turning vim-gnome into a transitional package to one of those.
Regards,
S
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages vim-gnome depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.52-3
pn libbonoboui2-0 <none>
ii libc6 2.22-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.33.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.0-1
pn libgnome-2-0 <none>
pn libgnomeui-0 <none>
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.1+b2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.30-1.1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii liblua5.2-0 5.2.4-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
pn libperl5.18 <none>
ii libpython2.7 2.7.11-7
ii libruby2.1 2.1.5-4
ii libselinux1 2.4-3+b1
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii libtcl8.6 8.6.5+dfsg-2
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160319-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii vim-common 2:7.4.1689-2.1
ii vim-gui-common 2:7.4.1689-2.1
ii vim-runtime 2:7.4.1689-2.1
vim-gnome recommends no packages.
Versions of packages vim-gnome suggests:
pn cscope <none>
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1
pn ttf-dejavu <none>
pn vim-doc <none>
