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

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:11:02 +0000

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Hi Frans, hi Carles,

On  Do 13 Nov 2025 10:58:03 CET, Frans Spiesschaert wrote:

> Hi Mike, Carles,
>
> Mike Gabriel schreef op do 13-11-2025 om 08:20 [+0000]:
>> Hi Carles, hi Frans,
>>
>>
>> Please wait! In Debian blends (which Debian Edu is one variant of, 
>> esp. the education-*-* packages), the Suggests: field is 
>> programmatically used for software that is not available in Debian 
>> testing. This could imply that the software is not in Debian, but we 
>> could reintroduce it at some later point in time.
>>
>> So, I'd actually vote for ignoring the Suggests: field in 
>> education-*-* packages and leave the packages in there. In fact, I
>> am 
>> currently involved in a packaging project where we might bring more 
>> Edu software (back) into Debian. If xtide has returned, we simply
>> need 
>> to update debian-edu src:pkg and xtide jumps back into the
>> Recommends: 
>> field.
>
> Oh, I see, I was'nt aware of it.
> So, the best thing to do is to reintroduce the Suggests on xtide and
> xtide-data and to reopen Bug#1118016, I guess. Isn't it?

Not exactly.

The best is to revert your recent changes, yes.

Next time you want to modify the software recommendations/suggestions  
of debian-edu derived bin:pkgs, please do that in
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu/-/tree/master/tasks

The debian-edu src:pkg is a Debian blends generated package, so  
debian/control should not be edited manually. It gets generated via  
the Debian blends tooling.

Regarding related bugs:

#1118016 [w|  |  ] [education-astronomy] education-astronomy: suggests  
xtide and xtide-data which are not in unstable
#1118017 [w|  |  ] [education-chemistry] education-chemistry: suggests  
gdis which is not in unstable
#1118079 [w|  |  ] [education-common] education-common: suggests  
cpqarrayd, dpt-i2o-raidutils and raidutils which are not in unstable
#1118080 [w|  |  ] [education-desktop-other] education-desktop-other:  
suggests kvpm and tablix2 which are not in unstable
#1118081 [w|  |  ] [education-geography] education-geography: suggests  
googleearth-package and qlandkartegt which are not in unstable
#1118082 [w|  |  ] [education-video] education-video: suggests kino  
which is not in unstable

In my opinion they should all be closed and tagged with wontfix. Can  
you do that Frans?

Thanks,
Mike
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