Homepage link "http://www.athena-scs.com/" is dead (DNS problem) for more than a month. found with https://repology.org/repository/gentoo/problems and verified. /usr/portage/app-crypt/asekey # GENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild asekey-3.7.ebuild fetch >>> Downloading 'http://www.athena-scs.com//docs/reader-drivers/asekey-3-7-tar.bz2' --2019-03-17 11:56:49-- http://www.athena-scs.com//docs/reader-drivers/asekey-3-7-tar.bz2 Resolving www.athena-scs.com... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address ‘www.athena-scs.com’ !!! Couldn't download 'asekey-3.7.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
Thanks. I am aware, however, this what keeps the package alive... I see that the situation is the same in other distros. The company stopped publishing the drivers and closed their site, but people may still use this hardware.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=07cc7d0ebb918e9e02b126bcc62e695126824ad5 commit 07cc7d0ebb918e9e02b126bcc62e695126824ad5 Author: Alfred Wingate <parona@protonmail.com> AuthorDate: 2023-09-15 04:42:27 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-09-24 22:07:29 +0000 app-crypt/asekey: remove HOMEPAGE, mirror distfile in gentoo namespace * Athena Smartcard LIMITED stopped existing as an entity in 2015 when NXP Semiconducters aquired them. Now their domain has been aquired by an unrelated domain squatter. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05881097/filing-history https://www.nxp.com/company/about-nxp/nxp-acquires-athena-scs:NW-ACQUIRES-ATHENA-SCS Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/680720 Signed-off-by: Alfred Wingate <parona@protonmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-crypt/asekey/asekey-3.7.ebuild | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
