ROOT packages not found on bionic

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:34:23PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> It seems that upgrading from Mint 18 (xenial) to 19 (bionic) one loses
> ROOT packages (root-system).  Does that mean than from bionic onwards one
> has to build ROOT directly from CERN sources?

> May you confirm? WHY this occurred? Just out of curiosity...

This Ubuntu package was synced from Debian, and was removed from the Debian
repositories in 2016 (https://bugs.debian.org/827248).  It was subsequently
removed from Ubuntu as well, following suit, because we do not keep packages
in Ubuntu that have no maintainer. 
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/root-system/+publishinghistory)

I don't have any specific knowledge of this software so I can't say what the
best solution is for users who have need of it.  In principle it would be
possible for someone (perhaps upstream) to provide a snap package which
would be installable on Ubuntu 18.04.

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