Hey, Quoting Thorsten Toepper (2017-09-06 19:28:33) > Hello, > > Over the last couple of months other things in live got higher priority > and the amount of time I'm able to invest into Arch Linux shrinks. So > after several years I now step down from my post as a TU. >
I wish you the best with your life! > I only maintain a small number of packages and for most there are rarely > new releases upstream and for the ones with more or less regular > releases there sure will be someone to take care of them, however > there's one package for which I . > > mathomatic is a great tool, but its original developer George Gesslein > died several years ago and since then the original site vanished. There > are sites like launchpad which still provide information about this > software, but except for other distributions I never found a site that > also provided the code of the last release, so as package source I use a > backup of the last release in a github repository in order to be > independent of other sites may dropping the tool as currently there's no > one who develops this software further. As mentioned there's a launchpad > site for the project, but the version provided there is 15.6.5 while the > last release was 16.0.5. It would be nice if this package could stay in > the repositories. Maybe not just relying on my backup copy on github, > but hosting it on our own servers. > So, since it's under the LGPL it falls under requirements to provide the source if anyone asks, so there's a sourceball of the package available here[0], but it would probably be possible to get the raw upstream tarball hosted under the other directory as well. [0]: https://sources.archlinux.org/sources/community/mathomatic-16.0.5-4.src.tar.gz -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 PGP Key FP: 5134 EF9E AF65 F95B 6BB1 608E 50FB 9B27 3A9D 0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
