Your message dated Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:52:59 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#941374: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #507342, regarding vim-vimoutliner: poor defaults for dark background users to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.4-8 Severity: wishlist OK, so the real bug here was that I had never really used vim in colour, and so had not noticed that it was universally assuming that TERM=xterm means black-on-white text. Perhaps vim colour detection can somehow be improved, or perhaps it would be nice if everyone could agree that terminals doing dark backgrounds define TERM=xterm-dark and then we can wait for the world's remote computers to start supporting that without falling in a heap when they see an unsupported terminal, but in the mean time: If you're a total vimoutliner newbie (as am I) and whenever you start vim on an empty outline file you just get a black screen, and then get to type in black it takes a while to notice that TAB turns the lights on. Actually, going back a step, I seem to remember initially wondering what I had to do to load vimoutliner at all after I'd installed it, so a mention of the fact that it pops up automatically if the file extension is right in the README might be nice too. Then we get to the attempt to fix the problem. Eventually, I realised that what I actually wanted was nothing to do with vimoutliner, but rather that adding something like: if &term == "xterm" set background=dark endif But on my travels to get there, the README.Debian for this package pointed me in the direction of /etc/vim/vimoutlinerrc where I found a commented out: colorscheme vo_dark I tried this at the : prompt in vim, and it worked, so I uncommitted it. That doesn't help, since it seems that there is nothing actually looking at vimoutlinerrc -- it works if I explicitly source it in my vimrc, but I see no mention of a need to do that in this package's readme, so I'm wondering if there's a but in that it's supposed to somehow automatically load that file as the README.Debian implies. Oh, and if it makes any difference, I tried installing vimoutliner with vim-addons, but that didn't make it look at the vimoutlinerrc either. So, how to fix this? Well, a mention the README.Debian of the fact that if you get black-on-black text it's because you need to set background=dark would have saved many hours, but I'd understand if you thought that this would clutter the README. A colorscheme that didn't start with black (dark grey perhaps) would have also been helpful. A note in the vimoutlinerrc describing what you need to do to make it active would be very useful. And a note in the same file next to the colorschemes saying that you should perhaps fix the background setting rather than the colorscheme would also be handy. Cheers, Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages vim-vimoutliner depends on: ii libpalm-perl 1.3.0-7 Perl 5 modules for manipulating pd ii libxml-writer-perl 0.604-1 Perl module for writing XML docume ii perl 5.10.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o ii vim 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor vim-vimoutliner recommends no packages. vim-vimoutliner suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.3.4+pristine-9.3+rm Dear submitter, as the package vimoutliner has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/941374 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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