Bug#654674: vim-tiny incompatible with vim-common's mailcap

[James McCoy]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:29:31PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> After installing vim-tiny,
> 
>     $ compose /tmp/tmp.c
>     sh: 1: vim: not found
>     Warning: program returned non-zero exit code #127
> 
> This is because vim-tiny provides "vi" but not "vim", and vim-common
> claims the latter can edit text/* files.
> 
> I think either vim-tiny should provide an alternative for
> /usr/bin/vim, or the mailcap should refer to vi instead of vim.

We specifically stopped providing a vim alternative in the vim-tiny package
because of the purpose of the package (providing a vi for the base system) and
because the lack of functionaity confused too many users.

I'll look into adjusting the mailcap for vim-tiny.

Thanks,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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