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From: Jeffrey W. <nol...@gm...> - 2018-08-29 19:42:27
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Hi Every, Please forgive me for the off-topic question. I'm hoping Julian can shed some light... I have a script that fetches the latest bzip from http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz . The library is built from sources because some GNU packages need it. The fetch has been failing lately. Visiting bzip.org it looks like the site is no longer operational. Where can we find authentic sources for Bzip? Jeff |
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From: Mark W. <ma...@kl...> - 2018-08-29 20:04:51
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Hi Jeffrey, Unfortunately the bzip.org domain is no longer available to the bzip2 project. The plan is to move back to sourceware: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/ https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/ And also setup a git repo, bugzilla, mailinglist, etc. for the project there. But not everything has moved yet. The homepage currently only has (very) old information available. Cheers, Mark |
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From: Jeffrey W. <nol...@gm...> - 2018-08-29 20:04:17
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Mark Wielaard <ma...@kl...> wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > > Unfortunately the bzip.org domain is no longer available to the > bzip2 project. The plan is to move back to sourceware: > https://sourceware.org/bzip2/ > https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/ > And also setup a git repo, bugzilla, mailinglist, etc. for the project > there. But not everything has moved yet. The homepage currently only has > (very) old information available. Thanks Mark. A small suggestion... Bzip should setup GitHub, GitLab, <favorite sc> accounts. Then the project should add a README that points people to the new location. The action serves two purposes. First, it disseminates information on the new location. I went to GitHub looking when the original site was not operational. Second, it stops folks from squatting the Bzip name and distributing who knows what. Jeff |
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From: Jeffrey W. <nol...@gm...> - 2018-08-29 20:24:46
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Mark Wielaard <ma...@kl...> wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > > Unfortunately the bzip.org domain is no longer available to the > bzip2 project. The plan is to move back to sourceware: > https://sourceware.org/bzip2/ > https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/ > And also setup a git repo, bugzilla, mailinglist, etc. for the project > there. But not everything has moved yet. The homepage currently only has > (very) old information available. I'm kind of surprised, but the Wayback machine has this archived: http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz. I was able to download it. Jeff |