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  ngspice Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 21:20 +0100
    Re: ngspice Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2015-11-04 21:40 +0100
    Re: ngspice Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2015-11-04 21:50 +0100
      Re: ngspice Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 22:50 +0100

#160205 — ngspice

I have used the ngspice package for quite some time.  Version 20 of this
package is found in the Squeeze repositories, and this is the version
that I have been using until just last week.  Since the Squeeze release,
it appears that this package has been dropped in Wheezy and Jessie
releases.  Since then, ngspice has progressed to version 26, which I
have acquired in source form, successfully compiled, and installed under
my current debian system (Jessie 8.2.0).

Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian
distribution???  What would it take to get this package brought back to
Debian??

--
Que te vaya bien
JM

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#160206

On 2015-11-03 05:30 +0100, Jose Martinez wrote:

> I have used the ngspice package for quite some time.  Version 20 of this
> package is found in the Squeeze repositories, and this is the version
> that I have been using until just last week.  Since the Squeeze release,
> it appears that this package has been dropped in Wheezy and Jessie
> releases.  Since then, ngspice has progressed to version 26, which I
> have acquired in source form, successfully compiled, and installed under
> my current debian system (Jessie 8.2.0).
>
> Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian
> distribution???

It hasn't been dropped, but later binaries have been made available for
amd64 only[1], rather than i386 as in squeeze.

> What would it take to get this package brought back to
> Debian??

Somebody needs to build i386 binaries[2].

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ngspice
2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653103

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#160207

Jose Martinez writes:
> Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian
> distribution???  What would it take to get this package brought back
> to Debian??

Apparently it has moved to non-free, as you can see here:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ngspice&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
You could add non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

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#160236

On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 21:42 +0100, Siard wrote:
> Jose Martinez writes:
> > Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian
> > distribution???  What would it take to get this package brought back
> > to Debian??
> 
> Apparently it has moved to non-free, as you can see here:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ngspice&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> You could add non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
It is indeed in non-free, but not in i386 architecture since Debian
Squeeze.  The amd64 package exists past Squeeze but not the i386.  This
turns out to be a known "bug" and there is an open bug about it.  If
there is any way I can help, I will try to aid in the return of the i386
package to Debian.  I've sent out a couple emails in regards to this,
and hope to get some responses soon.  In the mean time, I'm using the
source package from upstream compiled on my system for the latest
version.

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