[Slackbuilds-users] missing sources

[B. Watson]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> How about switching their sources to archive.org links? Like ffmpeg2theora's 
> source can be changed to:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20161010020734/http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/downloads/ffmpeg2theora-0.30.tar.bz2

That works, and we've done that for a few builds before.

I think Willy's issue isn't "the source is missing", it's "there is
no active maintainer who should have *noticed* the source was missing
*months ago* and already fixed it".

Unmaintained scripts are OK, until they stop working. If nobody else
wants to step up as maintainer, then what happens? Either one of us
admins has to spend time fixing it, or we have to remove it because we
don't want *broken* stuff in our repo.

I lean more towards "spend some time fixing it", but my time is
limited like everyone else's is.