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Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback?
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Björn Höfling |
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Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback? |
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Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:28:46 +0100 |
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:57:04 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> We added support to retrieve Git checkouts (and some tarballs) from
> Software Heritage recently:
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> https://issues.guix.info/issue/33432
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> The Internet Archive is not in the business of archiving software, but
> it’d be interesting to see if it archives tarballs that people put on
> “random” web sites, in which case it could also be useful.
We sometimes use it to replace expired packages or home-page URIs: In
some cases, the home-page or even the tar-file is in the archive. But
that is a manual step of cause. A famous example of recent time is the
package bzip2, where the domain expired and was taken over.
Björn
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