9.04 and now vim isn't reading ftplugin/*.vim files on startup

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 18:01 -0700 schrieb Bill Moseley:
>> Anyone else notice this with vim after upgrading?
>
> debian appreantly switched it off by default:
> ...
> Filetype plugins are no longer enabled by default because certain
> actions (like preventing the loading of the default menus) *must* occur
> before filetype detection is enabled.  By enabling filetype plugins (and
> detection) in debian.vim, we are preventing the user from being able to
> make changes to Vim's behavior.  Filetype plugins can be re-enabled via
> "filetype plugin on".
> ...
>
> from /usr/share/doc/vim/NEWS.Debian.gz

That's just bizzare.  'By enabling filetype plugins (and
> detection) in debian.vim, we are preventing the user from being able to
> make changes to Vim's behavior.'

Instead we'll prevent the user from having Vim do what most of it's
users want it to do by default?
Am I missing something here?
</shakes head>
Why do some packagers think they are smarter than upstream?

Brian

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