* On 2025 13 Aug 11:24 -0500, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Thanks David, the links you provide are very interesting. If I understand > correctly, gftp-gtk is finished. It's a shame, but we can't stop the evolution > of Debian releases. It may be too late now, but you can hold the package so it won't be removed. Quite easy to do in the Aptitude UI with '='. If there aren't any conflicts, the old libraries that gftp-gtk depends on will be kept back and unless support for running old binaries is removed at some future time, it will continue to work as before. I have a very old utility I use for updating part of my Web Site and it depends on an equally ancient libg++. As it's a command line app, I don't foresee that it will quit working. If it does, I have some virtual machines with older Debian releases it can run on. I'll leave this as an exercise for when you have time and patience. I have in the past manually downloaded and installed the application and its dependencies that might have bee inadvertently removed. Not easy but it can be done and I was also sure to mark them as held if not already marked as locally installed by Aptitude. The good news is that Debian doesn't force the user into only using those applications in the current repositories. The distribution doesn't prevent the user from doing what I describe even though it's probably not recommended for a variety of reasons. In some cases, when running a current amd64 system, it may be necessary to enable multi-arch to run an i386 binary. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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