ROOT packages not found on bionic

[Angelo Graziosi]

Ciao Steve,

> Il 31 dicembre 2018 alle 20.01 Steve Langasek ha scritto:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:34:23PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 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.

thanks for confirmation. 

It is a pity that ROOT has been removed (consider that CERNLIB, whose development was stopped in the 2003, is still there...).

Thanks and Happy New Year,
 Angelo.