Has gnumeric been abandoned by Ubuntu Linux

[Bret Busby]

On 28/3/23 22:54, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 8:12 AM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>
>> In running Linux Mint 21.1,  which uses the Ubuntu 22.04 repositories,
>> and, wanting to open a downloadable spreadsheet in gnumeric, and,
>> finding that I do not have it installed, thence, searching for gnumeric,
>> using synaptic, the results returned, include
>> gir1.2-gnumeric
>> gnumeric-common
>> gnumeric-doc
>> gnumeric-plugins-extra
>>
>> but, not gnumeric itself.
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 22.04, and the program is present:
> 
> $ apt-cache search gnumeric
> diffoscope - in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories
> diffoscope-minimal - in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and
> directories (minimal package)
> gir1.2-gnumeric - GObject introspection data for the Gnumeric spreadsheet
> gnumeric - spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program
> gnumeric-common - spreadsheet application for GNOME - common files
> gnumeric-doc - spreadsheet application for GNOME - documentation
> gnumeric-plugins-extra - spreadsheet application for GNOME - additional plugins
> libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl - module to create Excel spreadsheets
> python-xlwt-doc - module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files - doc
> python3-xlwt - module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files - Python 3.x
> 
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
> Release:        22.04
> Codename:       jammy
> 
> Maybe it's a Linux Mint thing. Perhaps you should ask on one of their
> mailing lists.
> 
> Jeff
> 
Unfortunately, the primary Linux Mint mailing list is defunct, and, so, 
I started a second Linux Mint mailing list on the same host, and, after 
about five months, I am still, the only subscriber.

Linux Mint appears to be not supported, in terms of mailing lists.

What I now wonder, given the repositories that I showed in the initial 
post in this thread, why, if gnumeric is present in the Ubuntu 22.04 
repositories, synaptic did not find it.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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