bug 58002

[Rocco Stanzione]

I created a launchpad bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/58002
that has turned rather unpleasant and unconstructive imo.  I was asked to 
start a discussion here.

I have questions for this specific bug and for bugs in general.  For this bug, 
is there an appropriate solution at all?  My recommendation (hadn't thought 
of it by the time I decided to wash my hands of the launchpad bug) is to put 
an empty /etc/skel/.viminfo into the vim package, which would fix this and 
have no other consequences that I can think of.  Modifying sudoers to always 
set home was also suggested, but I think that would have some unintended 
consequences.  I figure the answer to that will determine which package, if 
any, this bug should be filed against.

In general, what can we do to prevent this kind of thing?  I'm hard pressed to 
go what I see as a troublesome bug because somebody says vim's behaving 
correctly, therefore it's not a bug.  Dennis was hard-pressed to let go what 
he believed was an invalid bug report.  When in doubt, do what?  When there's 
apparently a problem where the bug isn't in the package that feels the 
symptoms, where to file the bug until the solution is decided on?

Thanks,

Rocco