Re: gftp-gtk disappeared from trixie ?
On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 04:00, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 at 22:23, Gerard ROBIN <g.robin3@free.fr> wrote:
> > has gftp-gtk disappeared permanently from trixie?
> Hi, I think the answer is yes. I do not know anything about this package
> except what I have written here.
>
> After bookworm, the source package 'gftp' does not build the binary
> package ''gftp-gtk' [1].
>
> The Debian changelog latest entry for the source package says [2]:
> Drop gftp-gtk. (Closes: #967390)
>
> Bug #967390 [3] explains why.
>
> Per [1], it looks like you can still install 'gftp-text' in trixie [4], forky
> and sid.
>
> [1] https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=gftp
> [2] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/g/gftp/gftp_2.9.1~beta-4_changelog
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967390
> [4] https://packages.debian.org/trixie/gftp-text
Also, the 'gftp' package has been orphaned, so it has no maintainer. [5]
And there is discussion which gives more explanation about why at [6].
[5] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gftp
[6] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029041
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