<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Nov 21, 2018, at 7:51 PM, Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E] <<a href="mailto:schneidt@mail.nih.gov">schneidt@mail.nih.gov</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span> Reinhard:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Unfortunately he doesn't say whether he tried to contact the author. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This is the first thing one should try in order to get things fixed</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>upstream.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span><a href="https://pts.50.hu/sam2p/">https://pts.50.hu/sam2p/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>is back up and says:</span><br><span></span><br><span>"Parts of this page may be obsolete. See sam2p on GitHub instead."</span><br><span><a href="https://github.com/pts/sam2p">https://github.com/pts/sam2p</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>So it looks like the original author is handing it over to github.</span><br><br></div></blockquote><br><div>The history at <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sam2p">https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sam2p</a> is probably instructive. It looks like the package was pulled from Debian’s Testing repository in 2016. Although it appears that the Debian long term support project is uploading patches, it isn’t supported going forward.</div><div><br></div><div>A look at <a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=sam2p">https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=sam2p</a> shows that it hasn’t appeared downstream in Ubuntu since 16.04. </div><div><br></div><div>The package could be reintroduced in Debian if somebody follows the appropriate processes.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Michael Kellat </div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/~skellat">https://launchpad.net/~skellat</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>