‘vim-full’ to be removed?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Dear Vim users,

This is an excerpt from <https://bugs.gnu.org/27770>:

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:44:36AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> vim-full fails its tests with this update. I've noticed from previous
>> discussion that the test suite is flaky with vim-full. What do you
>> suggest?
>
> In 3c14378381fc1f187a07b2f958eeed1958f02672, I updated vim and kept
> vim-full at 8.0.0600.
>
> This means that vim-full is still vulnerable to CVE-2017-11109.
>
> I'll remove the vim-full package in 1 week (July 28) unless we have a
> fix for this bug.

I’m sure removing this package would annoy quite a bunch of people, so
please do take a look and give a hand to Leo!

Ludo’.