Has gnumeric been abandoned by Ubuntu Linux

[Jim Byrnes]

On 3/28/23 10:54, Bret Busby 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
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
> 
> 

https://forums.linuxmint.com/  is active but it is web based only as far 
as I know. There is also a sub-reddit for mint on reddit if you're ok 
with using something like that.

Regards, Jim