Bug#660962: makepasswd: debian/copyright refers to non-exixting source URL

2012-02-23 Thread Jari Aalto
Package: makepasswd
Version: 1.10-7
Severity: normal

debian/copyright reads:

It was obtained from the author via IRC at irc.linpeople.org, but can
also be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.linpeople.org/pub/People/lilo/source/makepasswd-1.07.tar.gz

This URL (and the whole site) no longer exists. Please mark the URL
accordingly and possibly find new source location.

=

ftp://ftp.linpeople.org/pub/People/lilo/source/makepasswd-1.07.tar.gz
As of 2012-02-23 the domain linpeople.org no longer exists.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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Bug#660962: makepasswd: debian/copyright refers to non-exixting source URL

2012-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:12:03AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
 debian/copyright reads:
 
 It was obtained from the author via IRC at irc.linpeople.org, but can
 also be downloaded from:
 
   ftp://ftp.linpeople.org/pub/People/lilo/source/makepasswd-1.07.tar.gz
 
 This URL (and the whole site) no longer exists. Please mark the URL
 accordingly and possibly find new source location.

There is unlikely to ever be a new source location since the upstream
author died some time ago.  Should I just mark it as historical interest
only?

-- 
Colin Watson   [cjwat...@debian.org]



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Bug#660962: makepasswd: debian/copyright refers to non-exixting source URL

2012-02-23 Thread jaalto
On 2012-02-23 12:08, Colin Watson wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:12:03AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
|  debian/copyright reads:
|  
|  It was obtained from the author via IRC at irc.linpeople.org, but can
|  also be downloaded from:
|  
|  ftp://ftp.linpeople.org/pub/People/lilo/source/makepasswd-1.07.tar.gz
|  
|  This URL (and the whole site) no longer exists. Please mark the URL
|  accordingly and possibly find new source location.
| 
| There is unlikely to ever be a new source location since the upstream
| author died some time ago.  Should I just mark it as historical interest
| only?

My condolences.

Just a note that it's no longer there is enough to tell people who
might be trying look at the other end for updates.

Jari



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