On 2020-07-11 09 h 37, James McCoy wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 01:00:24PM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: >> On 2020-07-09 12 h 37, Raphael Medaer wrote: >>> Dear Louis-Philippe, >>> >>> The first packaging I did (not published) was using `vim-addon-manager`. >>> Although I switch to dh-vim_addon (and friends) which is not using >>> `vim-addon-manager` anymore. >>> This move has been recommended by James McCoy <james...@debian.org> (who >>> sponsored the package). >>> >>> I guess you spotted a lack of documentation/policy for this new helper: >>> `dh-vim_addon`. >>> I add James in CC. Maybe should we discuss/write a new Policy and/or some >>> guidelines. >>> >>> I already started a TODO list of checks for new/next vim addon packages. I >>> would appreciate some feedback on it, but first let me a few days to make >>> it clean. >>> >>> Here are some additional notes about your comments: >>> >>> > It appears this package doesn't follow the Debian vim policy [1]. It's >>> > clearly not easy to find (I had to search quite a bit to find it), but I >>> > think it's important vim packages try to respect it :) >>> >>> Is this policy still relevant ? Already mentionned above. >> >> No idea, I'm only a vim user and I haven't done any vim work in Debian :) > > The policy basically codifies the behavior that we implemented in vam. > That's problematic in its own right, but also an issue because vam is > very flawed (see #438482). > > >>> > * the addon is enabled after the installation; it shouldn't >>> >>> If I well understood James' advices: with `dh-vim_addon` help, vim addon >>> packages should always be enabled if you can disable them through your >>> vimrc with `let g:loaded_gitgutter = 1`. >> This is quite a big change and I guess it breaks my current setup :s > > I'm curious about how this breaks your setup. Could you explain this > more?
Nothing important really. I use configuration management on hosts I use (servers and clients) to get a consistent vim profile, and I used vam to enable or disable addons. Addons being enabled by default will simply mean everything will be done via vimrc files. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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