Pypar2 missing?

[Teunis]

Is it just on my system that pypar2 doesn't show up in the 18.04 repos?
Now I've downloaded the deb from 17.10 on reposcope.com and installed it individually.

[claydoh]

It was removed from Debian recently, so it was not imported from there to Ubuntu's repos.
The code is over 1o years old, and likely no one maintains the packaging anymore.

Yup: https://tracker.debian.org/news/9028...from-unstable/
Bit rot for sure, in terms of packaging. As it is a python script, the code itself should be OK, until it does not get along with future python versions, or needs some dependency that goes away as well (gtk2 stuff, eventually).

[acheron]

Deleted from Bionic before release, but same effect.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...lishinghistory

[Teunis]

Ah well, thanks for the clarification.
Who would have thought the geeks would no longer be on usenet.

[GreyGeek]

Ah well, thanks for the clarification.
Who would have thought the geeks would no longer be on Usenet.

After the "Great Renaming" in 1987, and Gov Cumo's war against porn on the Internet, most ISP's took him to mean binary posts to usenet, although he didn't refer to Usenet in particular. Using that as the excuse they dropped their support of the NNTP and host apps and servers that supported Usenet by around 2005. Saved them lots of $$$ for a service which fewer and fewer people were using each year.

Back when I first started using Linux most help forums were on Usenet. Usually comp.os.linux.misc or something similar. Thunderbird, IIRC, had a newsreader section that went along with its email section. That's where SuSE had their support group, which I used up until 2002, when Novell bought SuSE and changed it to SUSE, and I went to a distro that hadn't jumped into bed with Steve Ballmer & Microsoft and accused Linux users of being IP thieves. Leaving that newsgroup I never used Usenet again.

[Teunis]

My ISP (xs4all.nl) still has two news servers, one for text-only, the other with binaries.
But they also have shell access where you can use the various terminal based tools like slrn and mutt or set up a tunnel from places that don't allow certain protocols.

[GreyGeek]

Kubuntu has available KNode, pan, tin, Thunderbird and some CLI apps for reading news from Usenets.
I haven't connected to a Usenet in over ten years.

[Teunis]

The last couple of years I use Thunderbird for the text groups and Pan for binaries.

[GreyGeek]

The last couple of years I use Thunderbird for the text groups and Pan for binaries.

Your ISP is supplying the usenet server?

[Teunis]

Yes, one for text another for binaries with about three weeks retention.
As a fill in I have a free account with xsusenet.com

On the text server I'm among others subscribed to a couple of the ISP's own groups and things like alt.os.linux.ubuntu and comp.misc