Package restructuring for GUI tookit-centered packages (was: Bug#444009: Vim with language plugins (python, ruby, perl, tcl) requires X11.)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:27:29AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> That brings up the question of whether we want to provide a transitional
> package or not.  For all the other packages being dropped, it makes
> sense to simply leave them as transitional packages Depending on vim-gtk
> since that's essentially what they were.  This doesn't make much sense
> for vim-lesstif since that'd be a change in graphical toolkit.

Agreed. I'm fine with: transitional packages for vim-${lang} variants
and no transitional package for vim-lesstif since it has no obvious new
mapping.

> we would only be building vim-basic and vim-tiny in the "else" block
> since there appears to be problems with the language support when
> $(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM) == gnu (should this be a contains check instead
> of equality?).
> 
> When does this even happen?  Is it anything we actually need to worry
> about still or is there somewhere I can check on the status of what was
> preventing us from building on those architecture(s)?

I frankly don't remember. I presume it is something predating our vim
maintenance join. Nobse: any hint?

Cheers.

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