I tried to port pam_panic to Ubuntu Xenial but I failed because of the very old packages of gnupg, scdaemon and overall the signing with smartcard. Also pushing things to launchpad didn't recognise the sources and it built empty packages which is indeed unfortunate.
So...
Build it yourself
- Install the build dependencies via shell
sudo apt install libpam0g-dev cryptsetup libcunit1 libcunit1-dev gettext po4a dialog autopoint autoconf libtool
- Change into the pam_panic which you've downloaded and extracted before
cd pam_panic
- Install the autoconf files into the project using
autoreconf -i
- Configure autoconf to install pam_panic into your real™ system directory
./configure --prefix=/usr
- Build the source with
make
- Install pam_panic with
sudo make install
Now you can run pam_panic_config and do a config!.