Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add most debian patches to nvi.

[Marek Benc]

On 01/21/2015 10:35 AM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> The number of patches looks quite frightening. From the README of nvi, the
> current version dates from 2007. Now if upstream is dead and does not fix
> patches, it might be preferable to remove the package altogether. Is there no
> viable alternative that is still alive? Or vim in legacy mode?

I guess there is vim, which can be configured to behave pretty similar
to vi, but I personally think that having variety is good. Of course, I
won't object if you remove the package, because objectively, it is
obsolete, and I can always put it into my private package path :)

> Andreas

Marek