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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, brandon@invergo.net, jmd@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cook source disappeared
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:23:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160723192335.GB9761@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160723184656.GA8123@solar>

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:46:56PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> in Guix, the "cook" package currently does not build for lack of source
> (it is possible that the source has disappeared a while ago, but that
> this was only noticed once the cache broke down with hydra.gnu.org).
> The Free Software Directory mentions version 2.25 from 2004 with a home
> page that is not available:
>    http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cook
> This is also given at
>    https://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cook.README
> 
> John has packaged version 2.34 for Guix in 2014 with a different home page,
> which is also not available.
> 
> Does anyone of you know the current home of the software?

The author of cook and Aegis, Peter Miller, died in 2014 [0].

I noticed the missing source code last year, and I didn't find a new
"canonical" source for it. Perhaps we can find it in the Debian mirrors?

[0]
https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20141020

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-23 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-23 18:46 Cook source disappeared Andreas Enge
2016-07-23 19:23 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-07-23 20:17   ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-24  1:58   ` John Darrington
2016-07-24 13:12     ` Efraim Flashner
2016-07-24 15:41       ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-24 16:25       ` John Darrington
2016-07-24 16:45         ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-24 18:10           ` Efraim Flashner
2016-07-24 18:15             ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-25  8:14           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-24 18:15     ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-24 18:53       ` John Darrington

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