[Slackbuilds-users] missing sources

[Charadon]

Yeah. Don't get wrong though, if the SlackBuild script itself is broken, 
i'd say get rid of it and don't waste any time on it. But if it's just 
the source link being broken (Good ol link rot), it's easy enough to 
switch it over to an archive.org link.

As a sidenote/fun fact, linkrot is why NetBSD's pkgsrc has the 
`distfiles` directory.


-----Original Message-----
From: B. Watson [mailto:urchlay at slackware.uk]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2024 06:19 PM -04
To: Charadon via SlackBuilds-users
Cc: Charadon
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] missing sources



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.