Bug#1118016: education-astronomy: suggests xtide and xtide-data which are not in unstable

Frans Spiesschaert <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:57 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
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Hi Carles,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Carles Pina i Estany schreef op ma 13-10-2025 om 21:27 [+0200]:
> 
> Subject: education-astronomy: suggests xtide and xtide-data which are
> not in unstable
> Package: education-astronomy
> Version: 2.13.4
> Usertags: package-relations package-relations-suggests
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> I see that the package education-astronomy (version 2.13.4) suggests
> xtide and xtide-data which are not in unstable.
> 
> This can be seen in
> https://packages.debian.org/unstable/education-astronomy . Search for
> "Package not available".
> 
> The missing packages used to be in Debian but they were removed some
> time ago:
> 
> - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xtide
> - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xtide-data
> 
> Should they be dropped or changed?

Indeed, xtide and xtide-data were removed from debian because they were
no longer maintained, though they still are maintained upstream.
As far as I know there is no alternative available in Debian, so I will
remove them from Suggests in debian-edu.


-- 
Kind regards,
Frans Spiesschaert

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