[Reproducible-builds] Bug#772029: Bug#772029: debbindiff: please avoid hardcoded use of VIm

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Axel Beckert:
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Jérémy Bobbio (2014-12-04 16:15:02)
> > > Jonas Smedegaard:
> > >> I am not a VIm user, however, and its hardcoded use of that editor is
> > >> strongly discouraging for me (no, I do not use emacs either).
> > >>
> > >> Please consider recoding¹ to not rely on VIm-specific features, to
> > >> appeal also to users of other interactive editors.
> […]
> > The issues I have are a) pulling in 28.8MB on my system, and b) 
> > introducing an editor that messes with system priorities among editors.
> 
> Yeah, here, too...

As Helmut Grohne pointed out, now that debbindiff 9 gained text output,
it should be fairly easy to demote vim to Recommends and disable HTML
output when it's not installed.

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