As this cause trouble with colorschemes (see bug #951440), I'm undoing both changes again.
Undoing only the change to /etc/vim/gvimrc isn't enough as people would get background=dark in gvim if they don't use a colorscheme which changes their background colour (or a colorscheme at all) and as gvim uses a light background by default it results in hard to read colours (e.g. yellow on white).
As I don't see currently a good solution on how to fix it, I'm re-opening this bug again and setting it to "Opinion".
As this cause trouble with colorschemes (see bug #951440), I'm undoing both changes again.
Undoing only the change to /etc/vim/gvimrc isn't enough as people would get background=dark in gvim if they don't use a colorscheme which changes their background colour (or a colorscheme at all) and as gvim uses a light background by default it results in hard to read colours (e.g. yellow on white).
As I don't see currently a good solution on how to fix it, I'm re-opening this bug again and setting it to "Opinion".