On 23 February 2017 at 10:20, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 23/02/17 00:28 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> >>> By that logic: >>> >>> % egrep -i "Source|URL" * | grep googlecode | wc -l >>> 372 >>> >>> The Fedora community is NOT ready for googlecode to be shut down? >>> Things go away, it's part of the great internet cycle of life. >> >> >> It is well known that Google does not give a darn about its users and just >> pulls the plug under them whenever they (Google, NOT the users) feel like >> it >> (which is why it is such a bad idea to depend on their services). It is >> really not an example to follow. > > > The point is that Source: and URL: tags are often out of date or > mention sites that were valid once but no longer. We have packages > referring to gitorious.org, or to sites that are moribund because the > project has moved to GitHub. We haven't fixed all of them, so I see no > reason to keep fedorahosted.org running just because spec files refer > to it. Sounds like a great RFE for Fedora 27. If a spec file references a package that is pointing to a dead upstream, it is considered a FTBFS error. We can sell it as Mass Fall Cleaning! -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
