bug#18639: libdaemon home-page and source URL no longer valid

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
>> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/ no longer exists, and
>> I've been unable to easily find out what happened to it, or where it
>> now lives (if at all).
>
> In the meantime, here are two places where it can be downloaded from:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz/509dc27107c21bcd9fbf2f95f5669563/libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libd/libdaemon/libdaemon_0.14.orig.tar.gz
>
> Both of these match the hash in our libdaemon recipe.  The first one has
> the advantage of having the filename we expect.

We can add a ‘file-name’ field to the origin record anyway.

I went ahead and committed the new URLs, except for the home page.
Thanks!

Ludo’.


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commit cae8aa0a08e6252bd6488268d51ca77de2c13511 (HEAD, refs/heads/master)
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 6 09:45:17 2014 +0200

    gnu: libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs.
    
    Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>.
    Reported by Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>.
    
    * gnu/packages/libdaemon.scm (libdaemon)[source]: Add Debian and Fedora
      mirrors.

	Modified   gnu/packages/libdaemon.scm
diff --git a/gnu/packages/libdaemon.scm b/gnu/packages/libdaemon.scm
index 0c77e28..24f5b51 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/libdaemon.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/libdaemon.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -28,15 +28,27 @@
     (version "0.14")
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
-             (uri (string-append
-                   "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-"
-                   version
-                   ".tar.gz"))
+             (uri (list
+                   (string-append
+                    "mirror://debian/pool/main/libd/libdaemon/libdaemon_"
+                    version ".orig.tar.gz")
+                   "http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz/509dc27107c21bcd9fbf2f95f5669563/libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz"
+
+                   ;; This used to be the canonical URL but it vanished.
+                   ;; See <http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>.
+                   ;; (string-append
+                   ;;  "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-"
+                   ;;  version ".tar.gz")
+                   ))
              (sha256
               (base32
-               "0d5qlq5ab95wh1xc87rqrh1vx6i8lddka1w3f1zcqvcqdxgyn8zx"))))
+               "0d5qlq5ab95wh1xc87rqrh1vx6i8lddka1w3f1zcqvcqdxgyn8zx"))
+             (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
+
+    ;; XXX: Stale URL, missing replacement.  See <http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>.
     (home-page "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/")
+
     (synopsis "Lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons")
     (description
      "libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX