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by ancarda 4721 days ago
I was going to complain this didn't work then I realised my server (Latest Debian stable) only has Vim 7.2 and this requires 7.3. I'm not surprised to find my Mac, which I bought last year, has 7.3 but my server, which I installed last month, has older software.

Does anyone know why Debian seems to move so slowly? Should I change to a different distro?
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tgkokk 4721 days ago
Debian does move slowly (that's why it is good for servers; you don't have to update often) but you probably need to update your server. On Debian Wheezy, I have got Vim 7.3.547.
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ancarda 4721 days ago
>Debian Wheezy

I believe due to a mistake it ended up on Debian 6 (Squeeze). Still, shouldn't 7.3 be available via apt-get?

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tgkokk 4721 days ago
Nope, this is what Packages.bz2 shows for Debian 6:

  Package: vim
  ...
  Version: 2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1
  ...
  Filename: pool/main/v/vim/vim_7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1_i386.deb
And the file is still available here: http://debian.ipacct.com/debian/pool/main/v/vim/vim_7.2.445+...

Edit: and no, it wouldn't be available to Debian Squeeze users, since it is served as an update to Wheezy users and not as a separate package (even if it was, it would have been made available only to Wheezy).

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