Dear maintainer(s), I noticed that package gerris recommends gfsview, which is currently not available in unstable. See: - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gfsview The source package "gfsview" has there binaries: gfsview-batch, libgfsgl-dev and libgfsgl0t64. Perhaps gerris should recommend gfsview-batch? Or perhaps it used to be a package named "gfsview" that doesn't exist anymore. Would it make sense to remove or update it? Thank you for your time, PS[0]: I am developing a tool to detect such issues: https://salsa.debian.org/carlespina/check-relations . Reports are manually reviewed before submission. If you would prefer not to receive such reports (for specific packages, all of your maintained packages, etc.), please let me know. Any other feedback is welcomed as well. PS[1]: more information available in https://salsa.debian.org/carlespina/check-relations/-/blob/main/README.md and https://salsa.debian.org/carlespina/check-relations/-/blob/main/docs/bug-report-extra-info.md
Dear Carles, Thanks for the warning. From https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gfsview it seems that the problem comes from: uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage http://gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr/gerris/tarballs/ failed: 500 Can't connect to gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr:443 (certificate verify failed) I checked and there is indeed a problem with the certificate. I will fix it and tell you when it is done. It would be good to have gfsview (and gfsview-batch) back in testing. thanks for your help, Stephane
The problem with the certificate should be fixed now. What else can I do to help? cheers, Stephane
Hi, just a "tangencial" bug :-) ) The bug is that the package "gerris" is recommending a binary package "gfsview" which is not available in unstable. You are comenting why the "gfsview" is not in unstable, which to me is related but a different issue. I think that no "gfsview" binary package exists (there is "gfsview-batch", "libgfsgl-dev" and "libgfsgl0t64" built from source package gfsview). I'll get in touch with you by email in a moment to make sure that we are discussing the same. In this bug: the bug is for "gerris" and I suggest to stop recommending a package that does not exist (or recommend another one).
I've found more information. gfsview source package used to build gfsview binary package. The binary package was dropped here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/gfsview/-/commit/939ab45f052e69ffbefe8e54d3760c562b8f4ff2 To close: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967389 I think that gerris should stop Recommending gfsview binary package that stopped existing some time ago. Stephane and I will discuss without this bug any other steps regarding gfsview package. Cheers and thanks! -- Carles Pina i Estany https://carles.pina.cat | carles@pina.cat | cpina@debian.org