Re: [PATCH] Replace broken LADSPA URL.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> The ladspa.org domain appears to be no longer under control of the
>>> LADSPA project (does it still exist?).
>>>
>>> The attached patch changes the source URL such that it downloads the
>>> last copy archived by http://web.archive.org.  Is this okay or should we
>>> look for a more permanent home for the LADSPA sources?
>>
>> Alex Vong already suggested a patch for LADSPA home page and origin:
>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00356.html>.
>
> Oh, thanks.  I missed that.

Ricardo, could you incorporate some home-page as well, maybe pointing to
the archive.org copy until the project has a new home?

>> I also wonder about the policy to replace dead URLs.  Should it be
>> web-archive, or debian/slackware/... mirrors?
>
> I don’t know.

Any site holding a copy would do, but we should choose the most reliable
sites first.  So I think that would be Debian, then fossies.org, then
web.archive.org (which is reliable, but probably slow.)

It’s good to specify a list of URLs instead of just one URL in those
cases.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.