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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>
>>
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