Bug 618328

Summary:	dev-cpp/gtest-1.7.0-r1: Shutdown of Google Code
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ross Drummond <ross>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Peter Levine <plevine457>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, plevine457
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	544092

Description Ross Drummond 2017-05-13 04:16:10 UTC

The default SRC_URI in the ebuild returns a file not found error;

https://googletest.googlecode.com/files/${P}.zip



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -f gtest
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Downloading 'https://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.7.0.zip'

ERROR 404: Not Found.

!!! Couldn't download 'gtest-1.7.0.zip'. Aborting.
 * Fetch failed for 'dev-cpp/gtest-1.7.0-r1'

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-05-13 11:20:15 UTC

It should still be in the gentoo mirrors. 

I suggest to treeclean the package, if the mirrors are no reliable solution for the google code shutdown and users report broken packages. 

Further reasons:
* unmaintained
* upstream moved and forked long time ago. No one updated the ebuild.
* first report of the shutdown was on 2015-03-22, all developers were informed by email.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-05-13 14:29:38 UTC

It is impossible to treeclean this looking to the amount of reverse dependencies this is having

Comment 3 Peter Levine 2017-08-21 05:17:37 UTC

PR: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5491

Comment 4 Patrice Clement gentoo-dev

2017-08-29 20:31:09 UTC

PR merged. Thanks Peter!