[tracking] List of packages with dead $distfiles

[paper42]

• NoiseTorch
• agg
• biblioteq
• cmt
• console-setup
• deadbeef-fb
• disklow
• drawterm
• drbd-utils
• eb
• fbreader
• fldigi
• freedroidClassic
• ftjam
• gnunet
• gsoap
• guile-wisp
• hiawatha
• jenkins
• lbzip2
• lft
• libewf
• libguess
• libtcd
• libyubikey
• lrzsz
• lua51-luasocket
• memtester
• mime-types
• multitail
• pam-krb5
• pdmenu
• perl-B-Hooks-EndOfScope
• perl-Clone-PP
• perl-Config-Tiny
• perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5
• perl-Date-Manip
• perl-Email-MIME
• perl-ExtUtils-CppGuess
• perl-File-Flock-Retry
• perl-File-Listing
• perl-Proc-Govern
• perl-Test-Class
• perl-Test-File
• perl-Test-Output
• perl-Test-Script
• perl-tainting
• plist2json
• powerstat
• proplib
• purple-plugin-pack
• qalculate-qt
• qt5-fsarchiver qt5-fsarchiver: update to 1.8.6pl1. #42487
• quixand
• rsstail
• run-mailcap
• scratch
• simh
• smpeg
• snoopy
• stfl
• stunnel
• sunwait
• surfraw
• teams-bins teams-bin : distfiles are missing from Microsoft repos #42449
• thrift
• tokyocabinet
• udptunnel
• vlc
• vmap
• vokoscreen
• xcompmgr
• xditview
• xdm
• xonotic-data-low
• xvfb-run
• ykclient
• youtube-dl

[oreo639]

libiberty-devel points to a dead distfile as well, which would be fixed by #41878

[paper42]

I think I missed some because they were in my local cache from earlier, I will make sure to clean it next time.

[lftabera]

A couple of missing ones.

• apr
• gnulib
• libcloudproviders
• libiberty

Concerning teams-bin, as far as I know, the program is being deprecated from microsoft in favor of a PWA under google chrome

[Clos3y]

xdm compiles fine for me. What's the issue with the distfile?

[gmbeard]

• apache

https://dlcdn.apache.org/httpd/httpd-2.4.54.tar.bz2: Not Found

Edit: #43108 fixes

[meator]

You might find some useful info for hunting these dead links in my #38555. I have already fixed some packages thanks to this in the past.

[bugcrazy]

In this link there is a tarball of the agg-2.5.tar.gz version: https://github.com/aggeom/aggeom.github.io

This link has agg-2.6.1.tar.gz version: https://github.com/aggeom/agg-2.6/releases

Here the reasons for creating the agg-2.6.1 version: conan-io/conan-center-index#16865

[Bnyro]

NoiseTorch is fixed since 171ef3b

[Bnyro]

sunwait: fa8e9bb

[Bnyro]

powerstat: 32d1b7a

[Bnyro]

quixand: a091df0

[Bnyro]

Would it be reasonable to remove packages that don't have any distfiles alive anymore, orphaned, not updated for 5+ years and are not a dependency of any other package?

[Luc-Saccoccio]

The distfiles for the following packages are in fact reachable :

• memtester
• perl-Email-MIME
• purple-plugin-pack
• qalculate-qt
• thrift
• xcompmgr
• xditview
• xdm
• youtube-dl

Moreover, the package libpurple-hangouts was removed (see #44406). I'll join the effort to fix the other distfiles' links.

[dkwo]

in #46958 I also found:

• bombadillo
• browsh
• clipman
• lxd, lxd-lts

[dkwo]

bombadillo now works again.
lxd could be migrated to incus.
browsh i updated the distfiles.

[iFoundSilentHouse]

multitail template release was removed from original place. On multitail github re-release of template version requires cmake>=3.6 so it's better to stick to cached distfile.

[Calandracas606]

ftjam has dead distfiles

[zlice]

crawling repology and got this. there's like 273 more that their homepages marked dead are 'up' but that doesn't mean it's the same site anymore.

a few dead XXX links. not sure if there's any saving them

====== abiword ======
XXX sources.voidlinux.org
edit: this may actually be up still? it's just VERY slow
http://www.nl.abisource.com/
http://www.nl.abisource.com/download/
http://www.nl.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/3.0.5/source/

====== ipafont-fonts-otf ======
XXX
====== fuse-archivemount ======
XXX
====== xteddy ======
XXX

some backups or possible forks found

====== fbv ======
XXX
https://github.com/smokku/fbv
====== pmount ======
XXX debian site dead ?
https://wiki.debian.org/pmount
https://github.com/MisterDA/pmount ???? no clue
====== recode ======
https://github.com/pinard/Recode
https://github.com/rrthomas/recode (ahead)
 ^^^ refs rrthomas https://www.gnu.org/software/recode/
====== sendEmail ======
https://github.com/mogaal/sendemail
copied from orig
====== wallpaperd ======
converted to web.archive.org - voidsources ?
====== xskat ======
fork ? https://github.com/mfrasca/xskat
nothing else i can find

====== winusb ======
https://web.archive.org/web/20210228120035/http://en.congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html
ponce.cc/slackware is up. but winusb is pre-fork woeusb
----- WoeUSB ------
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-frontend-wxgtk
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng
updated ???

github is still up but homepages are taken down

dfc
embb
fastd
glide
horst
qtcurve
ruby-hpricot
usbmuxd
whowatch
xstarter
xz (ya...)

looks like original owner

====== gede ====== https://gede.dexar.se/
====== libesmtp ====== https://ftp.osuosl.org/welcome.msg ???????
====== pcsxr ====== https://github.com/pcsxr - codeplex dead
====== phonon-qt5 ====== https://userbase.kde.org/Phonon
====== phonon-qt5-backend-gstreamer ====== https://userbase.kde.org/Phonon
====== phonon-backend-vlc ====== https://userbase.kde.org/Phonon

[1is7ac3]

vokoscreen: 5360cce

[bugcrazy]

AGG: https://sourceforge.net/p/agg/svn/HEAD/tree/agg-web/agg-2.5.tar.gz

[1is7ac3]

deadbeef-fb: #53120

[gmbeard]

The distfile for udptunnel isn't dead, but appears so because of this issue

[gmbeard]

Fix for proplib - #53394