Bug#830580: Please also add "Provides: vim"

[Josh Triplett]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 01:14:07PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 01:35:22PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > From da7da47191265c5a376c7e32726941621e47e60c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:33:59 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Provides: vim
> > 
> > This allows vim addon packages that depend on vim to run with neovim
> > without having vim installed.
> 
> Actually, that won't currently work because nvim and vim look in
> different places for their addons.  Also, not all addons work with nvim.
> 
> vim-addon-manager, and the addon policy, need to be updated to support
> specifying whether addons are compatible with nvim and/or vim, and
> handle installation appropriately.

Hopefully that'll get a lot easier if addons start providing packages.
And ideally, addons that only support one or the other should include
that detection internally, not externally.