Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!
Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> wrote:
>Hi GBechly!
>> Fancylogin is reported to be in
>> unstable and there also is a package page, but the package is not
>> found from the download page and is also not present in any of
>> the mirrors.
>
>marvin:~# apt-get install fancylogin
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Package fancylogin has no available version, but exists in the database.
>This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
>never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
>of sources.list
>However the following packages replace it:
> francine
>E: Package fancylogin has no installation candidate
IIRC the upstream maintainer asked the Debian maintainer to remove the
package (I don't know why - some sort of dispute?), so the Debian
maintainer forked and called the new package francine.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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