[Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

[David Spencer]

Hey folks,

Github has just broken the download of about 1000 of our SlackBuilds.

If you get problems downloading with wget, or curl, or sbopkg, there are
2 things you can do:

(1) Download manually with a browser -- this still seems to work; or
(2) Visit sbosrcarch at http://slackware.uk/sbosrcarch/by-name/

Below is the text of a grumpy email I just sent to Github support.

Have a great day everybody!
-D.


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Hi,

Within the last 24 hours, for every repo on Github, archive URLS of the form

  https://github.com/<project>/<repo>/archive/<tag>/<repo>-<tag>.tar.gz

have stopped working. They now return 404 from within
codeload.github.com even though the github.com front end still accepts
them as valid.

I've attached a log for a typical test case:

  https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/archive/0.16.0/OWSLib-0.16.0.tar.gz

Strangely, this works for manual downloads within some browsers, but it
is a serious regression that this suddenly no longer works with
scriptable downloaders like curl and wget.

As far as we can determine, every repo in Github is affected.

Please advise.

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