[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-desktop SlackBuild source is 404'd

[B. Watson]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Bob Funk wrote:

> The source URL for gnome-desktop has been 404'd for a number of weeks now. 
> 
> It is a dependency to a number of my slackbuilds:
> https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?q=gnome-desktop&stype=revdep1

Wonder why he used the "fallback" URL. download-fallback.gnome.org
doesn't resolve any more.

This URL works:

https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-desktop/41/gnome-desktop-41.1.tar.xz

> I sent an email to the maintainer two weeks ago, which is what I forwarded in the remainder of this email to show my previous message.
> 
> I still haven't heard back. Do we know if Gustavo is still active? I could have missed the memo if he did drop out.

I don't know if he ever announced he was leaving, but his last
activity was about a year ago:

commit 459ee916938fd89ec6505e13087ddd5293714ec0
Author: Gustavo B. Schenkel <gustavo.schenkel at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 22 21:37:02 2024 +0700

     development/opentofu: Added (fork of terraform).

...and all but two of his builds have been taken over by other maintainers.

> Like I said in my other email, I will happily take over this slackbuild and update the source URL if needed.

Go ahead and take over. You said it's been two weeks... if Gustavo
shows up and wants his build back, you guys can work it out between
yourselves.

Also: If anyone's interested in opentofu, feel free to take it
over. Nothing in the repo depends on it. There have been quite a
few upstream releases since it was last updated on SBo, so it needs
attention if it's going to stay in the repo.