On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Derek Homeier wrote:

> On 28 Jun 2016, at 10:00 AM, Dominique Dhumieres <domi...@lps.ens.fr> wrote:
>>
>> I am unable to update vim to 7.4.1952 because vim-7.4.1952.tar.bz2 is not 
>> found.
>
> Same here; the problem lies with the tilde in the original URL path, which 
> for some reason
> is escaped with an extra backslash:
>
> Source: http://www.i8u.org/~htodd/finksrc/vim-%v.tar.bz2
>
> becomes
>
> http://www.i8u.org/\~htodd/finksrc/vim-7.4.1952.tar.bz2
>
>
> while trying to escape the character right away in the Source field
>
> http://www.i8u.org/%%7Ehtodd/finksrc/vim-%v.tar.bz2
>
> does not result in anything better:
>
> http://www.i8u.org/\%7Ehtodd/finksrc/vim-7.4.1952.tar.bz2
>
> Anyone knows if this is a new fink feature, or how to avoid adding the 
> backslash?
>
>
> Rather better in this case perhaps, use the github archive instead of a 
> private repository:
>
> Source: https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v%v.tar.gz
> SourceRename: vim-%v.tar.gz
> Source-MD5: a4c9c0b4e9f2de281dc439959cc0a009
> #SourceDirectory: vim
>
> (also got yesterday's latest release to build BTW:)
>
> Version: 7.4.1965
> Source: https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v%v.tar.gz
> SourceRename: vim-%v.tar.gz
> Source-MD5: e6cf2f37b2a668a4cd7de6df5234ab38

It's usually more likely that some big dummy (me) forgot to copy the
file to his external server. Dunno about the backslash problem.

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