The question I'd like to ask, is: why is vim-gtk in universe, whereas the other vims (which come from the very same source package) are in main?
Part of the motivation for this question is bug 110152 in Malone: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/110152 In that bug, users report upgrade failures (to new Ubuntu releases) for vim-gtk, because they have main, but not universe, listed in their security-updates, whereas their normal repository has universe. Obviously, this is a more general problem, since there are plenty of other packages besides vim-gtk that are (and should be) in universe, but depend on things in main (of course!). So, assuming their sources.list wasn't automatically generated by "Software Sources", this was a user error issue. However, the bug did lead me to question why vim-gtk is in universe. Are there examples of other source packages that produce both core-dev and community-supported packages? It seems strange to me, as I would have expected the terms "core-developer" and "community-supported" to apply to the actual source packages that developers work on, rather than their products. What would it even mean, for a source package to include both? It's not as if MOTUs can upload core-dev source packages... -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/
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