wmaker-data

[Jeremy Sowden]

On 2022-12-15, at 22:13:16 +0000, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> On 2022-12-15, at 22:07:51 +0000, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> > Access to the upstream site for wmaker-data:
> >
> >   http://www.rolamasao.org/wmaker-data/
> >
> > has been spotty for some time.  Currently, the host-name doesn't
> > actually resolve.  In fact, the NS servers for the domain don't
> > resolve either:
> >
> >   $ dig +trace www.rolamasao.org
> >
> >   ; <<>> DiG 9.18.8-1-Debian <<>> +trace www.rolamasao.org
> >   ;; global options: +cmd
> >   .                       94114   IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
> >   [...]
> >   ;; Received 1137 bytes from 2001:8b0:fb7d:d6d7:e0:4cff:fe83:e514#53(2001:8b0:fb7d:d6d7:e0:4cff:fe83:e514) in 72 ms
> >
> >   org.                    172800  IN      NS      a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
> >   [...]
> >   ;; Received 783 bytes from 2001:500:2d::d#53(d.root-servers.net) in 8 ms
> >
> >   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      NS      ns3.rolamasao.org.
> >   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      NS      ns.rolamasao.org.
> >   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      DS      37530 14 2 99BAA45F85152978C41658EEDA6A050FBD9AD5349FDB867EA0C76082 73D0BDDF
> >   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      RRSIG   DS 8 2 3600 20221230152222 20221209142222 37749 org. kZUn7q32UFZv90nrux/p6C/FInEcTk7kSSsjfi6XFShlwbe4/nVcvpNI qE9GvOaUiS7QYwoSDmRTM4GI9Jc50ZYbWmAIU6ybzo0iufUv1p6jVRQq Ngmz29FLdFkGnxiBlf4mx0ZBl6TxWVkQk5QGzHFI+j1HejqYHbslIwrz VEA=
> >   couldn't get address for 'ns3.rolamasao.org': failure
> >   couldn't get address for 'ns.rolamasao.org': failure
> >   dig: couldn't get address for 'ns3.rolamasao.org': no more
> >
> > The package has been maintained by the WM team since I salvaged it
> > last year from the previous maintainer, who is also the upstream.  I
> > have a copy of the upstream site that I grabbed when I first noticed
> > that it was intermittently unavailable:
> >
> >   https://azazel.net/~azazel/wmaker-data/rolamasao.org/wmaker-data/
> >
> > On the assumption that the upstream site is in fact defunct, I was
> > considering what to do.  I could host it myself, but my inclination
> > would be to put it up at windowmaker.org or dockapps.net.  I wanted
> > to get a second opinion before proposing it on wmaker-dev.  What do
> > you think?
>
> [Apologies for replying to myself.]

In for a penny, in for a pound :)

> Given that the upstream site is basically just some history and
> authorship info and a list of tar-balls, a dockapps.net page would be
> the obvious candidate.

It does occur to me, however, that perhaps this should go back to being
a native package.  Once upon a time somebody pulled together icons from
several places on the net in order to make them available in Debian.  At
this point the only source of those icons is the Debian package.  The
last upstream site was already explicitly created in order to be an
artificial upstream for the package.  Now that that seems to be dead,
why create another if the contents of this package have no existence
outside Debian?

J.
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