28 Feb 11, 03:23PM
The old masterserver replies with some text-output pointing people to the official site, so they can get the most up-to-date version.
We've never stopped people from packaging for their favourite distribution, but sadly they often make mistakes when packaging (like bad paths) and they mostly don't keep working on them past the first time.
As DES|OpenSource pointed out there's a package-information webpage for most high-level distros and there should also be a command-line tool and maybe even a GUI for inspecting details of the distribution-package .. where you'll find contact data for the maintainer of that package.
I remember when the 1.0.4 package for Ubuntu turned out to contain those faulty paths I mentioned above .. I tried to contact various maintainers for various distributions - none of them replied .. you might need to contact the distribution maintainers themselves to take over the job of maintaining the orphaned packaging-project.
We've never stopped people from packaging for their favourite distribution, but sadly they often make mistakes when packaging (like bad paths) and they mostly don't keep working on them past the first time.
As DES|OpenSource pointed out there's a package-information webpage for most high-level distros and there should also be a command-line tool and maybe even a GUI for inspecting details of the distribution-package .. where you'll find contact data for the maintainer of that package.
I remember when the 1.0.4 package for Ubuntu turned out to contain those faulty paths I mentioned above .. I tried to contact various maintainers for various distributions - none of them replied .. you might need to contact the distribution maintainers themselves to take over the job of maintaining the orphaned packaging-project.