On 25-10-2026 09:27, Jørgen Best wrote:
Hi there,
I have an update from xfce4-artwork. I see with source "manual". I
thought that it was best if directly original sources were used.
Is this OK? I didn't see this before when I checked the diffs.
Problems for me is of course that I don't understand every difference
an how exactly every thing works.
So I am very careful not to install to much. So I skipped this update.
Glad to here from you,
Kind regards,
Jørgen
Copied from PKGBUILD
|# Upstream is gone, this is the last tarball Debian shipped
source=("https://sources.archlinux.org/other/packages/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${_debian_pkgver}.orig.tar.gz";)
sha256sums=('7a97c0acd0ed67ebb871866cc79c2925bea45bf1b92442bd88fac390dbe639ac')
b2sums=('6e5a005bd8e27804909918dab9a72088742133c3ffdff0d684f4d4a3a7c3d9fb23163c76a4b418d4d1eea190dcca4965b2cdf056ddcdb720733be2b94bf4c6f2')
When the sourcecode is not available most open source licenses forbid
using it. So if original source of a package in repos disappears
archlinux either stops distributing the package or makes the sources
available somewhere public. sources.archlinux.org is used for such
cases. The internet archive might have a copy of the original project
pages/sourcefiles. If so that would be a better source location .
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=xfce4-artwork&id=c72e2d22b88cbbdae562f79fe6188e337289d12e
shows the commit where the sourcelink was changed. This is an edge case
that has been used for 2 years without complaints. It started while the
package was still in arch repos. After it was dropped to AUR the
sourcelink hasn't changed. Lone_Wolf |
