Your message dated Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:41:55 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1147651: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1147651,
regarding RM: gfsview -- RoQA; unbuildable since removal of libosmesa
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] [email protected]
Control: affects -1 + src:gfsview
User: [email protected]
Usertags: remove
gfsview requires Mesa's libosmesa, which was removed in 2025 (Mesa
25.1.0) and is no longer available. The most recent version of Mesa that
still built libosmesa used llvm-toolchain-19, so this is one of the
factors keeping llvm-toolchain-19 in unstable.
The most recent maintainer-team upload of gfsview was in 2023, to delete
the actual gfsview GUI, which required GTK 2. There have been no updates
to the upstream source since the initial upload in 2014, and the
upstream project shows no activity since 2013. There are no
reverse-dependencies.
If gfsview is still desired in Debian, I think the only way to provide
it would be to introduce the equivalent of Ubuntu's src:mesa-compat (a
separate source package containing an outdated version of Mesa) after
which gfsview and its dependency gnome-chemistry-utils could be
re-introduced; but in the absence of anyone interested in doing that, I
think these packages should be removed.
smcv
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
gfsview | 20121130+dfsg-8.1 | source
gfsview-batch | 20121130+dfsg-8.1+b5 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el,
riscv64, s390x
libgfsgl-dev | 20121130+dfsg-8.1+b5 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el,
riscv64, s390x
libgfsgl0t64 | 20121130+dfsg-8.1+b5 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el,
riscv64, s390x
------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; unbuildable since removal of libosmesa
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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