Re: Is gtksee removed?
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On 08/12/07 10:33, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Under unstable a few weeks back gtksee got unstalled due to dependancy
> problems. I've been keeping an eye on the package under aptitude, and
> besides the dependancy problem being there, now it shows up as not a
> package...
>
> I looked then into "http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtksee.html"; and found:
>
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> This package is neither part of unstable nor experimental. This
> probably means that the package has been removed (or has been
> renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest ... the
> package is going to disappear unless someone takes it over and
> reintroduces it into unstable.
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>
> And also:
>
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> # [2007-06-13] gtksee REMOVED from testing (Britney)
> # [2007-06-12] Removed 0.5.6-2 from unstable (Joerg Jaspert)
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>
> Then I searched on google for gtksee, but I don't find its upstream
> page. Just several e-mails and discussions... Would this mean that
> its upstream developers have also quit development and maintennance of
> gtksee?
Probably.
To my inexpert eyes, it appears that gtksee was orphaned. If that's
so, and is not being maintained by upstream, that might be why it
was dropped.
You *could* grab the deb-src from here, and build it yourself...
http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/gtksee
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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