Gftp and xubuntu 25.04

Pre-Release Discussion
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I noticed that the gftp package does not have a GUI interface. Is this a bug or is that the way its going to be?

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What version are you seeing on 25.04?

apt show gftp

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Package: gftp
Version: 2.9.1~beta-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group packages@qa.debian.org
Bugs: OpenID transaction in progress
Installed-Size: 11.3 kB
Depends: gftp-text (>= 2.9.1~beta-4)
Homepage: https://www.gftp.org/
Download-Size: 2,314 B
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: Index of /ubuntu plucky/universe amd64 Packages
Description: FTP client (metapackage)
gFTP is a multithreaded FTP client, using GLib.

4

The package itself is a beta and you are running the beta version of 25.04.

I would suggest filing a bug report:

ubuntu-bug gftp

If you do not already have one, create a Launchpad account.

5

OK, I submitted a bug.
[Bug 2107394] [NEW] Xubuntu 25.04 beta missing gftp-gtk package

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FYI, the ChangeLog for the plucky gftp package shows which is actual a change from the upstream Debian packaging…

gftp (2.9.1~beta-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  • QA upload.
  • Drop gftp-gtk. (Closes: #967390)
  • Drop Author from package Descriptions.
  • Adhere to machine-readable copyright.

– Bastian Germann bage@debian.org Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:55:45 +0100

The Debian bug report that resulted in this change can be found at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967390

Basically upstream support for maintaining gftp is minimal at best with no expectation of a rewrite for gtk3 support despite it being out since 2011.

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