Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#611: Package cherrytree is missing from Beowulf

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:41:13 +1000

> On 29 Sep 2021, at 21:12, Olaf Meeuwissen <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Joril,
> 
> Joril writes:
> 
>> Package: cherrytree
>> 
>> Hello,
>> it looks like the package "cherrytree" is missing from Beowulf, even
>> though it was present in Ascii and IS present in Chimaera
>> 
>> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=package&q=cherrytree
> 
> Per https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cherrytree the package
> was not in Debian's buster, hence not in Devuan's beowulf.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Hi Joril,

On a further note to Olaf’s comment, looking at the Debian bugs for cherrytree you can find the reason for removal was due to python2. The more recent version was rewritten in C++ and is therefore back in the Debian package archive.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;src=cherrytree

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cherrytree

Tom