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Bug 238493 - dev-util/rej - upstream MIA
Summary: dev-util/rej - upstream MIA
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~cmason/
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Reported: 2008-09-23 17:29 UTC by Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)
Modified: 2020-11-03 21:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-09-23 17:29:44 UTC
The HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI for dev-util/rej are gone, and it appears to be rather difficult to track down the Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> who wrote it. The [URL] seems to refer to the same person. There seems to be a Chris Mason at cmu.edu, but it's unknown whether he's the same person.
Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-31 20:21:17 UTC
The utility is still potentially useful, so I don't want to remove it. What do you think I should do in response to this bug?
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-01 17:34:58 UTC
What you could do is change HOMEPAGE to reflect upstream's status - maybe make www.gentoo.org the HOMEPAGE, or dev.gentoo.org/~dsd :)

The SRC_URI is invalid anyway and should probably be changed to mirror://gentoo/foo.
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-01 17:40:12 UTC
 # ChangeLog for dev-util/rej
-# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-util/rej/ChangeLog,v 1.10 2007/05/15 09:10:31 bangert Exp $

+  01 Nov 2008; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
+  Take up maintainership.
+

:)
Comment 4 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2020-09-19 18:10:39 UTC
Any news?

dev-util/rej$ GENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild rej-0.16-r1.ebuild fetch 
Appending /usr/local/overlays/gentoo to PORTDIR_OVERLAY...
>>> Downloading 'http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/rej/rej-0.16.tar.gz'
--2020-09-19 20:07:27--  http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/rej/rej-0.16.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.suse.com... 195.135.221.132, 2001:67c:2178:8::11
Connecting to ftp.suse.com|195.135.221.132|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-09-19 20:07:27 ERROR 404: Not Found.

!!! Couldn't download 'rej-0.16.tar.gz'. Aborting.


HOMEPAGE must not be set to www.gentoo.org, because this is not the upstream project page

SRC_URI must not be mirror://gentoo, because the gentoo mirror is no valid source