Package: vim-addon-manager Version: 0.2 Severity: wishlist --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
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Addon evolution
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Addons evolve. They can add new files in new versions or remove files
that were previously shipped. Both situations need to be taken into
account by vim-addon-manager.
Addition of new files are currently handled by vim-addon-manager
recognizing that the addon is in "broken" status after the new version
is installed system wide (assuming additions are properly documented in
the registry of course). "vim-addons install" will fix this, but we need
to automate or at least ease the fixing process.
Removal of old files (i.e. garbage collection) is not currently handled.
vim-addon-manager need to grow detection of dangling symlinks and the
ability to delete them. Currently it is not possible to distinguish
among garbage links left over by vim-addons or by user-created dangling
links. The distinction would require to relegate in a specific subdir
all the stuff installed by vim-addons (or to version information in the
vim registry, which is a non-option!). ATM I think this is overkilling
and that removing user-created dangling symlinks won't be a big deal
(they were dangling and therefore useless anyway!). Similar
considerations apply to lines in ~/.vim/plugin/vim-addons.vim: they need
to be garbage collected as well.
TODO: add a -f/--fix-broken option to vim-addons implementing the logics
described above
Automation
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Question: how to automate the stuff above so that the user does not have
to manually invoke "vim-addons -f"?
For system-wide addons that can be obtained with postinst/postrm hooks
used by all packages shipping vim addons. (Too bad: we should have
shipped a dh_vim or something since the beginning of the Debian vim
policy, even if empty, this way we wouldn't have had the need of asking
maintainers to do changes twice!)
TODO: create a dh_vim which invokes "vim-addons -f" system-wide
TODO: while we are at it, it makes sense to ease the registration of
addons in the registry via debian/package.vim files or something ...
For user addons we can do this lazily: each time the user invokes
vim-addons (for whatever reason) we can check if something is broken and
emit warnings which suggest to invoke "vim-addons -f". Alternatively we
can provide some vim legacy addon which invokes some b0rken checking
each/some time vim is invoked, but this is feasible *only* if we can do
that efficiently, and I don't think it is possible with the current
registry format + ruby.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable people.debian.org
500 unstable ftp.it.debian.org
500 testing security.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.it.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
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ruby | 1.8.2-1
vim-common | 1:7.1-056+2
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