From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: The version of gVim shipped indicates numerous omitted patches: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Feb 12 2003 07:37:31) Included patches: 1, 3-15, 17-18, 20-22, 24-34, 36-43, 45-49, 51-72, 74-75, 77-83, 85-87, 89-92, 94-99, 101-118, 120-146, 150, 152-153, 157-183, 185-189, 191-195, 197, 200-201, 203-227, 231-239, 241-242, 244-252, 254-258, 260-289, 293-295, 297-299, 301-302, 305-310, 312-320 Compiled by <bugzilla> The second line should read: Included patches: 1-320 Perhaps someone has taken the time to figure out the applicable patches for Red Hat and has intentionally removed the others, but there's no harm in letting them in, especially when it communicates to the Vim user that it is complete. (The first one looks like what we usually get on the list when someone who doesn't know what they're doing tries to roll their own. ;) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-X11-6.1.320 (close, not sure, I overwrote it) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: :version Additional info:
Bram Moolenaar marks some of his patches as 'extra', i.e. when they are only for VMS or Win32. Those patches haven't been applied as they only patch files which are unused on Linux or add p.e. #ifdev WIN32 ... code ... #endif. Check out the README.patches in our rpm and compare the list.