OK, thanks for the advice. We should definitely migrate to a git-based hosting situation.
Cheers, Lars > On 10 Jan 2017, at 11:46, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > thanks for your investigation. > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:18:50AM +0100, Erik Sjölund wrote: >> I asked Lars Arvestad (the upstream author and the owner of the web >> page http://prime.sbc.su.se/ <http://prime.sbc.su.se/>) but he said he >> didn't have time. He >> suggested the Debian package could be removed. > > The fact that the source download for the package vanished is no reason > to remove the Debian package which has a decent user base and no known > bugs. I just wanted to make sure we will not miss any future release > when I was checking the download location. My recommendation for a > reliable download of the source would be to use any of the known Git > hosting platforms which provide source tarball downloads provided that > the authors are using tags. Please note that not only Debian users > might have interest in the source code but other users or distributions > as well. > > So I'll simply leave the Debian package as is and hope you might ping in > case the author might have followed my suggestion (or fixes the download > by some other means). > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: >>> Hi Eric, >>> >>> I realised that uscan which is seeking for new versions of Debian >>> packaged software at the download location failed to connect. When >>> looking at the download page[1] the spefified link >>> http://prime.sbc.su.se/download/ returns "Forbidden". Could you >>> please check what might be wrong here? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Andreas. >>> >>> >>> [1] http://prime.sbc.su.se/downloads.html >>> >>> -- >>> http://fam-tille.de >> >> > > -- > http://fam-tille.de <http://fam-tille.de/>