0008746: neovim package is absent in kali-rolling?

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008746	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2024-05-03 13:15	2024-05-03 22:43

Reporter	Containerist	Assigned To	steev
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required

Summary	0008746: neovim package is absent in kali-rolling?
Description	There is a result of "sudo apt search neovim" in my system ("sudo apt update" is fresh): dh-vim-addon/kali-rolling,kali-rolling 0.4 all debhelper addon to help package Vim/Neovim addons interception-caps2esc/kali-rolling 0.3.2-1+b1 amd64 interception plugin for dual function Esc/Ctrl key at CapsLock python3-pynvim/kali-rolling,kali-rolling 0.5.0-1 all Python3 library for scripting Neovim processes through its msgpack-rpc API vim-ale/kali-rolling,kali-rolling 3.3.0-1 all Asynchronous Lint Engine for Vim 8 and NeoVim vim-redact-pass/kali-rolling,kali-rolling 1.7.4-6 all stop pass(1) passwords ending up in Vim cache files

kali-bugreport 2024-05-03 21:59 reporter ~0019237	https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/neovim shows that it was removed from kali-rolling recently

steev 2024-05-03 22:01 manager ~0019238	This is a common occurrence when packages are from Debian and not something that we package. When this occurs, it's usually due to some bug in the Debian package that needs to be fixed before they re-introduce the package. You can track it yourself, by going to the tracker.debian.org website. This isn't a bug but how packages rolling in from debian work.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2024-05-03 13:15	Containerist	New Issue
2024-05-03 21:59	kali-bugreport	Note Added: 0019237
2024-05-03 22:01	steev	Assigned To	=> steev
2024-05-03 22:01	steev	Status	new => closed
2024-05-03 22:01	steev	Resolution	open => no change required
2024-05-03 22:01	steev	Note Added: 0019238