On Tue, Feb 3, 2026, at 12:24 PM, Ineiev wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> FYI, Savannah's web interface to CVS repositories (viewvc) is currently >> responding to all requests with a 429 Too Many Requests error code. >> Since the 'gnustandards' repo is still using CVS, this has broken >> Autoconf's script for updating its local copy of standards.texi, which >> goes through the web interface in order to avoid making people install >> the 'cvs' program, which they might not have any other use for anymore. >> >> I was able to update standards.texi by hand, and the script needs to be >> run only once per release of Autoconf, so a fix is not urgent. > > The script can replace cvs with rsync and rcs, > > rsync -av \ > rsync://cvs.sv.gnu.org/sources/gnustandards/gnustandards/standards.texi,v . > \ > && co standards.texi,v
Thanks for the suggestion, but RCS is even less likely than CVS to be installed on a random Autoconf contributor's computer, nowadays. zw
