#969240 playonlinux: please switch away from netcat

#969240#5
Date:
2020-08-29 20:10:11 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

playonlinux Depends on netcat. This is a transitional package on
netcat-openbsd, and the transitional package should go away sooner
than later, preferably in bullseye.

Please switch to netcat-openbsd, or ncat, or similar.

Thanks,
Chris

#969240#14
Date:
2021-08-20 11:52:37 UTC
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To:
* Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> [210820 11:49]:

The transitional "netcat" package is now gone in bookworm.
Your package is therefore now uninstallable.

Chris

#969240#23
Date:
2021-09-08 11:14:34 UTC
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Control: severity -1 important

This is not true due to both netcat-openbsd and netcat-traditional
providing netcat.

The dependency should be improved to either
  netcat-openbsd
or
  netcat-openbsd | netcat
but (assuming the package works with netcat-traditional) this is not
an RC bug.

cu
Adrian

#969240#32
Date:
2025-08-13 09:20:35 UTC
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Dear submitter,

as the package playonlinux has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1110516

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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