Marek Benc <merku...@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’.
