Subject: Re: unmaintained packages...
To: Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/30/2001 09:25:53
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Tomasz Luchowski wrote:

> I found very old pkg (19980415...):
>
> # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.17 2001/03/04 09:06:14 tron Exp $
> #
>
> DISTNAME=       xart19980415
> PKGNAME=        xart-19980415
> CATEGORIES=     graphics x11
> MASTER_SITES=   http://www.cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/
> HOMEPAGE=       http://www.cqi.com/~humbubba/linux.html
>
> I get 404 not found ... that ~user doesn't even exist on www server.
> I didn't find xart on sourceforge, and google did not help much.

Try "altavista" instead.

> What do we do in this case? Desperately seek if new homepage is available?
> DISTFILE is still available on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL.

The package can be found on Linux Sunsite and mirrors, and also a
slightly newer version, apps/graphics/draw/xart19980605.tgz.


Frederick