Re: Non available suggested packages in task education-desktop-other

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:23:16 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.skolelinux.devel,gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
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Hi Frans,

On  Mi 19 Nov 2025 20:42:49 CET, Frans Spiesschaert wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Task education-desktop-other suggests two unavailable packages.
>
> 1. Package tablix2 has been removed form Debian in 2024.
>    Also all traces of the upstream source code are gone.
>    So reintroducing it into Debian is not realistic.
>    tablix2 aimed at solving timetabling problems.
>    Debian ships the fet and fet-data packages.
>    Fet helps in automatically scheduling school timetables.
>    So it could be a valuable alternative for tablix2.
>    Fet is already suggested by education-desktop-other.
>
>    So we could harmessly drop tablix2, I guess.

Ok.

> 2. Package kvpm shipped a GUI front end for Linux LVM and Gnu parted.
>    Kvpm depends on the KDE 4 libraries and upstream development
>    stopped by the end of 2016. Upstream sources are still
>    available, though.
>    Debian now ships partitionmanager, a KDE gui
>    file, disk and partition management tool.
>
>    So I guess it would be good to replace
>    kvpm with patitionmanager as a suggests.

Maybe do this via the education-desktop-<desktop> packages? Because  
for MATE and GNOME we could use gnome-disk(s) which also provides that  
feature (LVM etc.).

What do you think of splitting this up and using desktop-near utilities?

Mike
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