I was answering a question on stackexchange about building the recently released vim 7.4 on Ubuntu and did some research I thought others might be interested to see.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18105733/building-vim-debs-on-ubuntu After some efforts trying a build it I ended up filing the bug below to request that vim 7.4 be backported to 12.04 LTS Precise. Even if you aren't interested in vim as much as I am you might have an interest in this process. Regards, Grant ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Grant Bowman <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM Subject: [Bug 1211971] [NEW] Please backport vim 2:7.4.000-1ubuntu2 (main) from saucy To: [email protected] bug url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1211971 Public bug reported: Please backport vim 2:7.4.000-1ubuntu2 (main) from saucy to precise, quantal, raring. Reason for the backport: ======================== This editor is one of several main tools for many developers. Having the latest version available on the LTS would be very helpful. Per the release announcement "more than a thousand bugs and small improvements" have been fixed since 7.3. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_announce/knOQ_t_H5to I used dget with pbuilder to try a test build of http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vim/vim_7.4.000-1ubuntu2.dsc but problems exist for precise such as Build-Conflicts: ruby1.8 Packages for quantal and raring are available in at least the ppa of cjohnston. Testing: ======== Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing. You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage: $ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s saucy -d precise vim $ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s saucy -d quantal vim $ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s saucy -d raring vim * precise: [ ] Package builds without modification [ ] vim-common installs cleanly and runs [... omitted lots of checkboxes ...] ** Affects: precise-backports Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: quantal-backports Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: raring-backports Importance: Undecided Status: New
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