Re: [vile] Accented (and other extended) characters lost when pasting into vile, OK otherwise.

[Chris G]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:36:22AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:01:26PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> >> I am also struggling with the release system, since I accidently created
> >> an upgrade path from 9.6-k1 to 9.6m-1.  While this may seem correct, the
> >> 'm' is a upstream-side thing not a Debian thing, the patching was done
> >> in Debian space.  So I'd like to continue doing this, now that I have
> >> made this mistake but I was wondering if Vile could be released as new
> >> upstream tarball next to the patch, so that I can tear down this
> >> "Debian-space patching".
> >>
> > I'm not sure I even follow this!  :-)
> 
> Debian generally has an original upstream tarball, plus diffs.  Given
> that the available original tarball for the current version is
> actually vile-9.7.tgz, that gets shipped by Debian as
> vile_9.7.orig.tar.gz (a simple rename), and patches 'a' through 'j'
> are then applied and end up in the accompanying vile_9.7-j1.diff.gz
> (the additional "1" caters for any Debian-specific changes).
> 
> What Paul is saying, is that if Tom were to provide vile-9.7j.tar.gz
> then the process would be simpler.
> 
I sort of guessed the explanation was something along these lines.

Is the reason for supplying the 'official' latest version of
vile as a base version plus a series of patches still the need to
conserve space on the FTP site?

-- 
Chris Green