[Bug 1838436] Re: popt download location broken

[Bryce Harrington]

Debian sees the problem too, at least since mid-June:

    http://duck.debian.net/static/sp/p/popt.html

    https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/popt


The domain name is still registered, through next year:

    https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=rpm5.org

>From debian/changelog, looks like the last major release, 1.16, was back
in 2010.

The project's devel mailing list had discussion activity within the last
couple years, but not very much, and nothing to explain what's going
on.:

    https://www.mail-archive.com/popt-devel@rpm5.org/maillist.html


It looks like the problem isn't merely a stale link, but that the activity level of the upstream project has dropped - unfortunately not something really addressable at the distro level.  Depending on what you need from the upstream website, you might try reaching out to individuals from that mailing list discussion.

Are you spotting any secondary issues being caused by the offline
rpm5.org website, within Ubuntu or the Ubuntu project infrastructure?
If there isn't, then I think since Ubuntu has been simply syncing this
package from Debian, I think we just follow their lead on what to do
packaging-wise.

** Changed in: popt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  popt download location broken

Status in popt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  rpm5.org disappeared, with download area, home page and CVS repo.

  See also https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62888?project=1&string=popt

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