#1150745 squeak-vm: recommends scratch which is not in unstable

Package:
squeak-vm
Source:
squeak-vm
Description:
virtual machine for Smalltalk
Submitter:
Carles Pina i Estany
Date:
2026-10-13 07:15:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1150745#5
Date:
2026-10-13 07:12:54 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer(s),

I noticed that package squeak-vm recommends scratch, which is currently
not available in unstable.

See:

- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/scratch

For details on when it was deleted, bug number, etc.

Actually, it is more interesting. Because I think that squeak-vm wanted
to install the "scratch" package (not in Debian currently), but it might
install with two unrelated packages I think:

carles@pinux:~$ aptitude search '~Pscratch'
p   librust-brotli-dev                                      - Compressor and decompressor for brotli written in rust - Rust sou
p   librust-scratch-dev                                     - Compile-time temporary directory shared by multiple crates and er
carles@pinux:~$

Besides perhaps dropping the "Recommends" (and leaving etoys), perhaps
the long description of squeak-vm needs to be changed:

https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-sugar-team/squeak-vm/-/blob/master/debian/control?ref_type=heads#L54

Thank you for your time,

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