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Bug 690102

Summary: app-editors/nvi: last rites
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Felix Janda <felix.janda>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Felix Janda <felix.janda>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: jstein, proxy-maint, treecleaner
Priority: Normal Keywords: PMASKED
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 687394    
Bug Blocks: 466030, 656864, 689442    
Deadline: 2020-03-18   

Description Felix Janda 2019-07-17 18:23:00 UTC
app-editors/nvi is based on very old code needing a lot of patches, and
can be well replaced by >=app-edtors/vim-8.1.1155[minimal].
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2019-07-22 21:06:28 UTC
https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/files
no patches and updates since 2010?

Seems to be really dead.
I think you should really last rite it. 

see "Removing a package"
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-maintenance/maintenance-tasks/

Please ask on IRC, if you need help.
Comment 2 Felix Janda 2019-07-29 15:54:42 UTC
It is not that dead, a few patches have been accepted since 2010:
https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git

The last time I heard anything from the maintainer was in January 2017.
Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-02-17 08:18:02 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fcf6743746ba9d9e498030239f53461da5145bc5

commit fcf6743746ba9d9e498030239f53461da5145bc5
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-02-17 07:41:29 +0000
Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-02-17 08:17:23 +0000

    package.mask: Last rite app-editors/nvi
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/690102
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)