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+Vim for Debian
+---------------
+
+1. The current Debian Vim scripts policy can be found in the vim-doc package
+   under /usr/share/doc/vim-common and
+   <http://pkg-vim.alioth.debian.org/vim-policy.html/>.
+
+2. Before reporting bugs, check if the bug also exists if you run vim
+   with "vim -u NONE -U NONE". If not, make sure that the "bug" is not
+   a result of a setting in your ~/.vimrc before reporting it.
+
+ -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>   Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:59:41 -0400
+
+MzScheme Vim variant
+--------------------
+
+As requested by the current MzScheme maintainer (Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>),
+a vim-mzscheme variant is not being built.  The reasons stated are as follows:
+
+  1) MzScheme does not build on many of Debian's supported architectures.
+
+  2) The MzScheme package is not versioned based on the library.
+
+  3) The MzScheme ABI changes with every upstream version.
+
+ -- James Vega <jamessan@debian.org> Mon, 10  Apr  2006  09:48:25  -0400
+
+Modeline support disabled by default
+------------------------------------
+
+Modelines have historically been a source of security/resource vulnerabilities
+and are therefore disabled by default in $VIMRUNTIME/debian.vim.
+
+You can enable them in ~/.vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc with "set modeline".
+
+In order to mimic Vim's default setting (modelines disabled when root, enabled
+otherwise), you may instead want to use the following snippet:
+
+  if $USER != 'root'
+    set modeline
+  else
+    set nomodeline
+  endif
+
+The securemodelines script from vim.org (and in the vim-scripts package) may
+also be of interest as it provides a way to whitelist exactly which options
+may be set from a modeline.
+
+ -- James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>  Sun, 04 May 2008 03:11:51 -0400