Re: games/xfrisk: distfile gone

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"Periklis Akritidis" <periklis%akritidis.org@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 8, 2024, at 5:12 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> What is the license of the distfile, and does it permit redistibution?
>> The package is coded
>>
>> LICENSE=        generic-nonlicense
>>
>> in a somewhat odd way.
>
> I guess that prevents mirror-distfiles pulling it. However,

It should, but RESTRICTED is missing.

> COPYING as well as all C files are GPL 2 (or later)
> Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Elan Feingold (elan%aetherworks.com@localhost)

that seems ok.  you might look at cvs history and see if you can find
out why that was changed.  It may have been changed erroneously, or the
world may have changed since then.

> He has committed the source on Github, but does not ship the tarball:
> https://github.com/elan/XFrisk I will try to ask him if he could,
> otherwise can I put a distfile somewhere and point to it?  Or make it
> work via github download mechanism?

pkgsrc has mechanisms to cope with a major bug of github thinking, which
is that releases are not necessary.  This case seems more complicated.

What I would suggest is that you

  compare the contents of the github repo to the distfile that used to
  be available

  prepare an update in pkgsrc-wip that packages from github as a
  snapshot.


Normally packages in pkgsrc proper should not be snapshots, because we
package releases, but upstream appears not to be doing anything, which
implies they are not following good release practices...