Subject: vim 4.2?

From: Mr Stuart Lamble <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 14:59:47 +1000

I've received a few emails since I took over vim, asking if vim 4.2
has yet been packaged in debian format. The stock response has been
that, since 4.2 introduced a condition - "distribute vim on a CD-ROM,
and you should/must send me a copy of that CD-ROM" - I decided not to.
Would it perhaps be reasonable to package up 4.2, and place it in the
non-free section, especially considering that 4.3 (currently in beta
test) will remove that condition?

It's been at least a month since I took over 3.0, and a number of
people are probably getting impatient :-)

Cheers.

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:16:09 -0500 (CDT)

> test) will remove that condition?

It is ok to have multiple versions of a package in different
distributions.  You can place 4.2 in non-free, leave the current
version in unstable, and put 4.3 in unstable when it comes out.

Guy