The officially official Devuan Forum!

Shlwh

Member

Registered: 2024-09-12

Posts: 2  

[SOLVED] Pinta is no longer in repositories

Hello, I am new to this forum. I want to install Pinta but it is currently only in the archived repositories, does anyone know why it was decided to remove it from the current repositories? And at some point would you think about adding it back?
Thanks.

Altoid

Member

Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,577  

Re: [SOLVED] Pinta is no longer in repositories

Hello:

... new to this forum.

Welcome to Dev1.

... install Pinta but it is currently only in the archived repositories ...

Packages in the Devuan repositories come directly from the Debian repositories 'as they are' unless they need to be sanitized/fixed because of their needing systemd. If for whatever reason that cannot be done, the package is then banned from Devuan repositories.

See: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

Devuan package repositories are exclusive. Other repositories, including Debian, Ubuntu, Mint etc, should not be used directly.

If Pinta was once available for Devuan, it must have been (at some point) available in the Debian repositories.
ie: if it is not in the Debian repositories, it will not be in the Devuan repositories either.

The Pinta package seems to have been removed from Debian unstable last year.
See:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1448883 … -unstable/

Probably because of a bug, cannot really say.
See:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1041606

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
Control: affects -1 + src:pinta

Please remove pinta. It is RC-buggy and was not contained in several
releases. It depends on gtk2. There are several new upstream releases
which nobody cared to import to fix the RC issue.

But it is not in their repositories any longer.
See:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pinta

Maybe contacting the package maintainer will get you more information.
See: https://www.pinta-project.com/contact

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (2024-09-12 11:20:29)

Shlwh

Member

Registered: 2024-09-12

Posts: 2  

Re: [SOLVED] Pinta is no longer in repositories

Ok, in the end I solved the problem using an appimage, but thank you for clarifying

Altoid

Member

Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,577  

Re: [SOLVED] Pinta is no longer in repositories

Hello:

... solved the problem ...
... thank you for clarifying

You're welcome.

Best,

A.