Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

[Georges Khaznadar <gekhajofour@netinfo.fr>]

There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US
section :

gk:~$ apt-cache show pgaccess| grep -A 100 Description
Description: Tk/Tcl interface to PostgreSQL
 A Tk/Tcl program for X that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL.  It can be
 used to generate and store queries, views, reports and forms.
 .
 The PostgreSQL database may be local or on a remote machine.
Task: database-server

Package: pgaccess
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-US
Installed-Size: 1524
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
Source: postgresql
Version: 7.2.1-2woody2
Depends: libpgtcl (>= 7.1)
Description: Tk/Tcl front-end for PostgreSQL database
 A Tk/Tcl program for X that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL.  It can be
 used to generate and store queries, views and new forms.


Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 
> > Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > > mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957]
> > > >   * Orphaned 755 days ago
> > > It would be great if someone would step in here.  Graphical frontends to
> > > PostgreSQL are quite rare.
> >
> > It's non-free.  However, Erik Tews fixed the package so it has proper
> > build dependencies and after a rebuild the package installs again.
> > I've just uploaded the package.
> >
> > Is there no GTK based SQL monitor for PostgreSQL?  I can't believe
> > that the non-free mpsql is the only graphical one.
> I can't believe to, but it seems to be so.  There wwas some rumor
> that the nice VB-tool would be ported to Linux ...