Bug#402242: closed by James Vega <jamessan at debian.org> (Workaround available)

[Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, James Vega wrote:

> No one *needs* to do anything.  If you want to make sure it gets fixed
> to your satisfaction, send a patch and I'll gladly forward it upstream
> to Bram for his consideration.
> Bram hasn't expressed any interest in fixing syntax highlighting of what
> he considers a bug in GCC so I doubt you'll get him to implement the
> feature (yes, feature not bug fix since it's a GCC extension).

OK, fair enough, you don't *need* to do anything. My poorly worded
point was that in my interpretation, closing this bug is at odds
with what I know about the Debian BTS. Let me quote: "

There's no doubt this is a bug in vim; vim doesn't get to decide
if an extension to gcc is actually a bug. Why Bram would think
that totally escapes me, but in any case his personal preferences
don't determine what's a bug in gcc. He just determines what he
wants to fix in vim.

So if you are not willing to fix this for whatever reason
(because it won't be accepted upstream, or because you don't know
how to, or because it would break something else, or whatever),
that's your responsibility and your prerrogative, and that's
fine. But don't "close" the bug (which means the bug isn't there
anymore). Mark it as wontfix with an explanation, or whatever
else you do these days.

For sure, disabling the functionality where the bug is expressed
is no workaround, and cannot be used as a reason to close.

I guarantee you that if I knew how to do this I'd do it myself,
as I've done many times in the past in various packages. But
having skimmed through the c.vim file, I don't think I have the
time or incentive to fix this particular one. I was just hoping
that the people that already know how to do it would do it, or at
least give a reasonable explanation as to why it wouldn't be
fixed.
Regards,

--
Álvaro Martínez Echevarría

``Pero yo que he sentido una vez en mis manos temblar
la alegría / ya no podré morir nunca. / Pero yo que he
tocado una vez las agudas agujas del pino / ya no podré
morir nunca''. [José Hierro, "El muerto"]