to absent friends.
today, the iem is announcing the shut down of the https://apt.puredata.info/ and https://autobuild.puredata.info/ services.
if you are missing these services, now is the time to propose a toast. if you are going to miss these services, think again.
https://apt.puredata.info/ provided Debian packages of Pd-extended, up to Debian/wheezy (aka Debian 7) resp Ubuntu/trusty (aka Ubuntu 14.04). As we all know, the last release of Pd-extended was based on Pd-0.43 and happened in january 2013. it has been dead since then. Debian/wheezy was released in 2013 and has been superseded by Debian/jessie (aka Debian 8) in 2015. The Long Term Support (LTS) for Debian/jessie [sic!] ended in june 2020. There was no LTS for Debian/wheezy. Ubuntu/trusty was released in 2014 and received Long Term Support until april 2019.
https://autobuild.puredata.info/ provided nightly snapshots of Pd-extended, so people could test all the new development features of Pd-extended without having to compile themselves. Again, Pd-extended has been dead for 7 years. The last nightly development snapshot was uploaded in 2016.
happy patching. fgmadrs IOhannes