Re: git: 5e05ddcf5f09 - main - audio/alsa-lib: Switch master site to GitHub.

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:23:33 UTC
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 04:27:45PM +0200, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 03:14:29PM +0000, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> >  audio/alsa-lib: Switch master site to GitHub.
> > 
> >  The original distfiles are getting hard to come by for some reason,
> >  so switch to pulling source tarballs directly from GitHub.
> 
> What do you mean with "hard to come by"?  They seem to fetch just
> fine.  Releases are also available via https if ftp is a problem:
> https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/lib/

+1.  GitHub should only be used as a last resort, it's terrible place
to host distfiles, not to mention that when it's backed by AWS-hosted
site it could be blocked in some countries.  Please follow Tobias'
suggestion and use www.alsa-project.org instead (HTTP[S] preferred).

./danfe