Please remove vte from Ubuntu

[Jeremy Bícha]

The vte source package is an old version of vte that hasn't been maintained in many years. The current version is packaged with source package name vte2.91

vte is still around in Debian because debian-installer has not yet switched to GTK3. However, Ubuntu no longer supports debian-installer and nothing in Ubuntu uses the old vte.

Therefore, please remove vte from Ubuntu.

$ reverse-depends src:vte
$ reverse-depends -b src:vte
No reverse dependencies found

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

It should be removed, but this package is synced from Debian. File a removal request there?

(BTW, 'lucid' is the wrong tag by 13 years ;)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

It can't be removed from Debian until someone ports debian-installer away from GTK2. :(

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from lunar:
 vte 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar amd64
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar arm64
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar armhf
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar i386
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar ppc64el
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar riscv64
  libvte-common 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar s390x
  libvte-dev 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar amd64
  libvte-dev 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar arm64
  libvte-dev 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar armhf
  libvte-dev 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar ppc64el
  libvte-dev 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar riscv64
  libvte-dev 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar s390x
  libvte9 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar amd64
  libvte9 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar arm64
  libvte9 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar armhf
  libvte9 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar ppc64el
  libvte9 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar riscv64
  libvte9 1:0.28.2-6build3 in lunar s390x
Comment: Obsolete and unused; LP: #1999335
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