On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:14:33 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
Being an old-fashioned sort of guy, I've been using the Tcl-based ical
calendar for many years. I've just found out - the hard way - that a
recent sid dist-upgrade appears to have made ical go away. Anybody got
any idea of why and where it went?
A quick Google Groups (that never sounds as good as "DejaNews" did)
turned up this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=51269
So, apparently, ical was pulled from Debian in early 2001 because it
was dead upstream, orphaned, and nobody wanted to take it over.
I don't know why, specifically, it got bounced from your machine, but
I'd assume it was because it depended on old libraries or old Tcl/Tk
infrastructure or whatever, which got upgraded when you went to sid.
-c (I used to use ical myself, as well)