Re: Cook source disappeared

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:46:56PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> in Guix, the "cook" package currently does not build for lack of source
> (it is possible that the source has disappeared a while ago, but that
> this was only noticed once the cache broke down with hydra.gnu.org).
> The Free Software Directory mentions version 2.25 from 2004 with a home
> page that is not available:
>    http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cook
> This is also given at
>    https://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cook.README
> 
> John has packaged version 2.34 for Guix in 2014 with a different home page,
> which is also not available.
> 
> Does anyone of you know the current home of the software?

The author of cook and Aegis, Peter Miller, died in 2014 [0].

I noticed the missing source code last year, and I didn't find a new
"canonical" source for it. Perhaps we can find it in the Debian mirrors?

[0]
https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20141020