Re: screen 4.0.3 not on GNU mirror sites

[Reuben Thomas]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Juergen Weigert wrote:

> On Jun 05, 08 01:44:34 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > While trying to check the changelog of screen I noticed that the latest
> > release, 4.0.3, is not available on ftp.gnu.org (nor, presumably mirrors)
> > and I couldn't find it via Savannah either or, except in source form,
> > anywhere else I looked.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html
> points to
> ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/screen-4.0.3.tar.gz
> This is our main upstream server, but it appears dead today.
>
> I just started a build job on opensuse.org
> -> screen-4.0.3 should soon appear in
>
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=screen
> and
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:jnweiger/

This is good, but if you're no longer distributing on ftp.gnu.org, it'd be 
good if the GNU web pages said so and had a pointer to the new distribution 
site.

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