On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:40:30AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sat 11 Apr 1998, David Welton wrote: > > > Notwithstanding my dislike for things vi;-), vim is a nice program > > used by a lot of people, so I though I'd try and fix some of the more > > serious bugs. > > Is the vim maintainer not maintaining it then? AFAIK Galen Hazelwood > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the maintainer.
It has a 'serious' bug that will prevent it from being released, as long as a pretty long list of other bugs. I haven't seen or heard anything.. > I use vim quite a lot, but if I read you correctly, you've already fixed > some stuff, so it might be best if you simply upload your fixed version. > After that, if the current maintainer doesn't object, I would be willing > to take over. Cool, although I'm still not sure on precisely what to do about the help file situation... I guess something in the postinst script that greps for the right lines in vimrc and offers to add them. Hrm.. yuck, I find things like that distasteful. > BTW: bug 16138 is no longer an issue with Vim 5.0, and should be closed > (I've already followed up on the BTS). A lot of the unofficially orphaned packages have big long lists of bugs, which often may have been fixed by new versions... Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
