On 23 February 2017 at 10:20, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@fedoraproject.org> 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 The point is that Source: and URL: tags are often out of date or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.
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