On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:30:29PM +0000, Tim Channon wrote:
>Homepage is dead, bounces to directory.
>
>Old homepage is http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/
>This is for example referred to directly by
>http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/apmd
>
>It also appears locally with a user in documentation.
>
>The problem affects much more than Debian. (Google search on above URL)
>Appears in HowTo, Ubuntu, to do with arcnet and so on.
>
>The correct link now seems to be
>http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/

Larry Doolittle asked a related question and Avery Pennarun's response
was:

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:51:46PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Larry Doolittle wrote:
>>apmd-3.2.2 in Debian (and elsewhere) doesn't look like it has
>>an "upstream".
>>
>>The Debian copyright file points to
>>http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd
>>which doesn't work.
>>
>>Debian Bug report #471884 points to http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/,
>>but that only has version 3.0.2.
>
>worldvisions.ca is defunct, but alumnit.ca is the correct new location
>of my version.  I believe the Debian version can now be considered the
>official "upstream", since I haven't maintained apmd in a long time.
>
>You should consider removing apmd entirely from the distro, as
>virtually nobody uses APM anymore and modern kernel support for it is
>crappy at best.
>
>Have fun,
>
>Avery

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