From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Cook source disappeared Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:58:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20160724015830.GA32375@jocasta.intra> References: <20160723184656.GA8123@solar> <20160723192335.GB9761@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bR8gm-0005UF-1Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:58:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bR8gi-0003D7-By for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:58:44 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:36771 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bR8gi-0003Cs-3j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:58:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160723192335.GB9761@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes, like Leo says, Peter Miller is deceased. It looks as if his entire home page is now gone. As I recall, it used to b= e hosted by the Australian Unix User Group. I suggest they just re-arranged their w= eb site, and it somehow got inadvertently dropped. It might well be worth a mail to the webmaster asking if they know anything= about it. > (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). I wonder if it would be worth having some kind of daemon which crawls and f= lags sources which are either missing, or have bad checksums? J' On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 03:23:35PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: 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 sou= rce > (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 h= ome > page that is not available: > http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cook > This is also given at > https://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cook.README >=20 > John has packaged version 2.34 for Guix in 2014 with a different hom= e page, > which is also not available. >=20 > Does anyone of you know the current home of the software? =20 The author of cook and Aegis, Peter Miller, died in 2014 [0]. =20 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 mirror= s? =20 [0] https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20141020 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAleUIMYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7NlwQCdGII6pa4miab5qdicb+XAOOK8 pyMAnRsnjZmqiM1kgjoP9JRU6oc2bEs7 =Mco+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--