On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:22 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> reassign 396934 vim-runtime
> retitle 396934 vim-runtime overwrites addon helptags on upgrade
> severity 396934 important
> thanks
> 
> Thank you, Ross, for the bug report!
> 
> > The file /usr/share/vim/addons/doc/vo_readme.txt.gz is on my system
> > and appears to have the proper text; I just can't get to it.
> > 
> > This used to work, so recent upgrades (maybe in vim?) must have
> > changed something.
> 
> This is a problem in vim, as James Vega and I just determined:
> 
> < madduck> jamessan: so something corrupted /usr/share/vim/addons/doc/tags on 
> two systems at least
> < madduck> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1961 2006-10-25 19:00 tags
> < madduck> lemme see what i did at 19:00 that day
> < madduck> hm, dpkg.log shows nothing. great.
> < jamessan> madduck: figured it out. vim-runtime needs a postinst that runs 
> helpztags since upgrading vim-runtime overwrites 
> /usr/share/vim/addons/doc/tags
> < madduck> jamessan: except i did not upgrade vim-runtime at that time. :/
> < jamessan> madduck: that time is the time the package was built
> 
> Thanks, James!
Thanks everyone.

Is there something I can do now to fix this up?  e.g., run helpztags as
root with some directories (which ones?)?
> 
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