Debian bug report logs - #1133, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1133: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question
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Package: vim
Version: 3.0-2

] Would you make vim your default editor (y/n)?

(a) vim shouldn't ask this question.  It should install itself if
there isn't a vi already installed, and not if there is, just like the
other vi clones.

(b) The question doesn't make it clear that it's only going to install
itself as /usr/bin/vi.  At first I recoiled in horror, thinking it
might edit /etc/profile to set EDITOR or something ...

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#1133: Acknowledgement (was: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question)
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Subject: Bug#1133: marked as done (was: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question)

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>
Subject: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question

Package: vim
Version: 3.0-2

] Would you make vim your default editor (y/n)?

(a) vim shouldn't ask this question.  It should install itself if
there isn't a vi already installed, and not if there is, just like the
other vi clones.

(b) The question doesn't make it clear that it's only going to install
itself as /usr/bin/vi.  At first I recoiled in horror, thinking it
might edit /etc/profile to set EDITOR or something ...

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#1133 acknowledged by developer (was: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question)
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This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report.

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