Has gnumeric been abandoned by Ubuntu Linux

[Luna Jernberg]

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On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 5:56 PM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ..
> Bret Busby
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