Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

[Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 01:20:01 +0200, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:

> On 9/19/14, Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/19/14, Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>> Strange.  Doing a web-search, I find a page for the geda-gaf package
>>> (old form at
>>> 	https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geda-gaf.html
>>> which seems to say that geda-gaf is part of stable, testing, and
>>> unstable.
>>> There are update dates from earlier in 2014.
>>>
>>> But if I search on the Debian web-site, doing a package search for
>>> 'gaf' I
>>> only find 'gafitter'.  Doing a direct package search either on wheezy
>>> or testing similarly finds no geda-gaf package.
>>>
>>> I'm confused - can anyone explain what is going on here?  TIA!
>>
>>
>> Will this help at all?
>>
>> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/geda-gaf/
> 
> 
> On afterthought, tried "apt-cache search" on ANY form of it (geda,
> gaf, OR geda-gaf).. That did bring up a couple geda packages, including
> geda but not your sought after geda-gaf.
> 
> *hm* ? :)
> 
> Cindy
> 
> --
> Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
> 
> * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) *

Ok, I'm blind.  I had missed the 'source' aspect, which now makes
sense.  It's simply odd that the packages derived from geda-gaf do
not contain the gaf utility {none of the derived binary packages
seem to have it, not even geda-utils}.

Thanks Cindy and Brian!