Mirror fink.ig42.org going away - sad news

Hi

> Am 13.06.2018 um 14:09 schrieb [email protected]:
> 
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:47:14 +0200
> From: Dominik George <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Fink-devel] Mirror fink.ig42.org going away - sad news
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> when working on the servers of Andreas ?gecko? Gockel, I found that
> there are references to the Fink project and apparently on of the fink
> mirrors is (or was) hosted there. I know that gecko used to work on
> fink, but I do not know any details about his involvement and how
> important this is for the project.
> 
> I sadly have to inform you that gecko has passed away on May 16th, 2018
> at the age of 36 years. Should any of you have had personal contact with
> him, please feel free to contact me in private for any details.
> 
> As I am managing the recovery of other people's data from geckos servers,
> I also have to inform you that any services related to fink that might
> be hosted there will go away some time soon.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Nik

My sincerest condolences to all, who know Andreas. This is so sad.

I found that nano-cur and gpsbabel use users.ig42.org as source server. If no one else steps up, I feel fine to take over maintainership of all nano packages. 

Regards - Michael Schindler
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