grip missing from (pre)noble (2024-04-16)

[Mark Eichin]

$ apt-cache show grip
N: Unable to locate package grip
E: No packages found

Jammy/22.04 had grip_4.2.0-3_all.deb "Preview GitHub Markdown files like Readme locally". (Not the ancient gnome cd player/ripper app.) Didn't see any bugs here about the package being dropped. No sources.list.d changes (machine was installed from a pre-noble iso about half an hour ago, full-upgrade changed nothing.)

(Looking at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/grip it's been untouched in a while and fell out of debian main releases; perhaps that's the cause, though it is still in sid. I'm just not sure why I don't see some matching reference ubuntu-side.)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

>I'm just not sure why I don't see some matching reference ubuntu-side.

If you go to the package overview page, in the upper right corner you have a link to the publishing history. According to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grip/+publishinghistory it was removed during the 23.04 cycle, and it looks to be the same issues which got it removed from Debian testing. Presumably these two issues need to be resolved and then a newer version would be autosynced from Debian to Ubuntu at a future point.

[Mark Eichin (eichin-gmail)]

Thanks! That's the detail I was hoping for. (In the meantime I found that "pandoc --from gfm --to html" did just as good a job and swapped over to it, so I am no longer personally concerned about the package itself.)