Adam Borowski wrote on 03.01.2018 00:31:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:03:21PM +0100, Irrwahn wrote:
>> According to:
>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=roxterm&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>> there are roxterm packages in Debian Jessie and Sid, but I have no
>> clue why it was dropped from Stretch. Situations like this to me
>> smell like negligent package maintenance
>
> Yes, it is negligent package maintenance -- both upstream and in-Debian
> maintenance. To get roxterm back, you'd need to step up for both positions.

Ah, just as I thought!

> Stuff won't fix itself...
>
> In the meantime, you can use one of remaining terminals. I see 31 that
> declare Provides:x-terminal-emulator, and a wild guess is that only around
> half of available terminals declare this tag.

Luckily I'm not the one who asked for it; I seem to remember
to have tried it once quite some time ago, and wasn't any more
impressed by it than by any other old terminal emulator.

Thanks for the info anyway.

Best regards

Urban

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