From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Cook source disappeared Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:23:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20160723192335.GB9761@jasmine> References: <20160723184656.GA8123@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59442) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bR2We-0000pP-C9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:23:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bR2Wa-00083j-3N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:23:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160723184656.GA8123@solar> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, brandon@invergo.net, jmd@gnu.org 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