Bug 670775 – app-cdr/dvdisaster-0.79.5 can't download source code

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description doj 2018-11-09 17:14:51 UTC]

Downloading of the source code for app-cdr/dvdisaster-0.79.5 fails, because the hostname can't be resolved with DNS:

>>> Emerging (4 of 5) app-cdr/dvdisaster-0.79.5::gentoo
>>> Downloading 'rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/distfiles/dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2'
 Welcome! This is a gentoo-portage mirror, as well as a mirror
 of other open source content, hosted by Steadfast Networks!

 https://www.steadfast.net

   Hostname:     mirror.steadfast.net & rsync11.us.gentoo.org
   IP Addresses: 208.100.4.53 & 2607:f128:1:3::2
   Location:     Chicago, IL, US
   Bandwidth:    1000 Mbps
   Hardware:     Xeon X3450, 16 GB RAM
   User Limit:   80

 If you experience any trouble with this mirror, please contact 
 [e-mail].

receiving incremental file list
rsync: change_dir "/distfiles" (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory (2)

sent 8 bytes  received 110 bytes  78.67 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1659) [Receiver=3.1.3]
>>> Downloading 'http://dvdisaster.net/downloads/dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2'
--2018-11-09 09:02:08--  http://dvdisaster.net/downloads/dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2
Resolving dvdisaster.net... failed: No address associated with hostname.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘dvdisaster.net’
!!! Couldn't download 'dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
 * Fetch failed for 'app-cdr/dvdisaster-0.79.5', Log file:
 *  '/var/tmp/portage/app-cdr/dvdisaster-0.79.5/temp/build.log'

[Comment 1 Jonas Stein 2018-11-10 21:10:43 UTC]

confirmed with
app-cdr/dvdisaster$ GENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild dvdisast.79.5.ebuild fetch

[Comment 2 doj 2018-11-13 17:33:47 UTC]

Looking at their DNS record:

$ host dvdisaster.net
dvdisaster.net mail is handled by 10 mail.dvdisaster.net.

So their DNS domain currently doesn't have any A or AAAA records and thus no web server can be found. As the project is hosted on sourceforge.net, you may want to update the download server to https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/files/dvdisaster/0.79.1/

If contacted the project maintainer on their Sourceforge.net account about their dvdisaster.net domain, but I would recommend to change the ebuild to use the sourceforge.net URL.

[Comment 3 doj 2018-11-13 17:40:43 UTC]

on the other hand, the sourceforge.net server doesn't have the 0.79.5 release. Maybe we can use the debian mirror for downloading temporarily? https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/dvdisaster

[Comment 4 doj 2018-11-17 17:17:27 UTC]

The developer told me that the website dvdisaster.net is no longer available and he has no plans to publish any more software. So we'll have to source this software from a different web site.

[Comment 5 doj 2018-11-17 17:25:54 UTC]

Created attachment 555470 [details, diff]
download dvdisaster source code from debian mirrors

use the debian mirror servers to download the dvdisaster source code, as the project's web page is no longer available.

[Comment 6 Jonas Stein 2019-06-05 16:02:41 UTC]

Upstream looks dead to me.
Did the project move?

https://repology.org/project/dvdisaster/versions

A mirror should not be the primary source for a dead project.
If the license allows it, and there is no suitable fork, fork it and also take care of the bugs.

[Comment 7 Daniel Kenzelmann 2019-06-06 07:45:28 UTC]

I could keep a mirror of the source, however I wouldn't want to invest the work to fix the code itself.
(DVDs are really out of fashion since a while...)

If we keep this in the tree I would suggest to remove 0.72.4 which would at the same time make https://bugs.gentoo.org/520994 obsolete...

License is GPL-3+ , so shouldn't be an issue to fork, but again, I'm not really in a position to maintain the code base...