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
