Bug#450574: Does not read /usr/share/vim/addons/ but /var/lib/vim/addons/

[James Vega]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:05:23AM +0100, Markus Fischer wrote:
> Version: 1:7.0-122+1etch3
> 
> The directory /usr/share/vim/addons/ is never considered by vim to be
> parsed upon starting. Using strace I discovered that only
> /var/lib/vim/addons/ is considered.

For the version of Vim you reported the bug against,
/usr/share/vim/addons/ is still included in Vim's "runtimepath" option
by default.  If Vim isn't checking that directory, then you likely have
modified /usr/share/vim/vim70/debian.vim or are overriding the value in
your ~/.vimrc.  You can check where that option was last set by starting
Vim and then using the command ":verbose set runtimepath?".

In case you happen to be running reportbug on an older system than where
you experienced the problem, I'll explain the situation for Lenny/Sid as
well.  We still expect packages that ship Vim plugins to install those
plugins in /usr/share/vim/addons (or a path specific for their package)
but we no longer include that path by default in Vim's runtimepath[0].
This is because the old behavior would cause any plugin which was
installed there to be enabled by default for *every* user on the system.
This is a very unfriendly default, especially with plugins like
latex-suite which are very invasive.

We removed /usr/share/vim/addons from the runtimepath and now suggest
that the user installs vim-addons-manager and uses the vim-addons
command to enable, for their user, the plugins they want to use.  Use of
vim-addons-manager isn't required as you can still add
/usr/share/vim/addons to your runtimepath (not recommended) or manually
copy/symlink the plugins' files into the appropriate part of your
~/.vim/ directory.

James
[0] - http://pkg-vim.alioth.debian.org/vim-policy.html/x112.html
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GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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