Re: [tracking] List of packages with dead $distfiles

[zlice <zlice@users.noreply.github.com>]

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New comment by zlice on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/42403#issuecomment-2272231834

Comment:
crawling repology and got this. there's like 273 more that their homepages marked dead are 'up' but that doesn't mean it's the same site anymore.

a few dead XXX links. not sure if there's any saving them

```
====== abiword ======
XXX sources.voidlinux.org
edit: this may actually be up still? it's just VERY slow
http://www.nl.abisource.com/
http://www.nl.abisource.com/download/
http://www.nl.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/3.0.5/source/

====== ipafont-fonts-otf ======
XXX
====== fuse-archivemount ======
XXX
====== xteddy ======
XXX
```


some backups or possible forks found

```
====== fbv ======
XXX
https://github.com/smokku/fbv
====== pmount ======
XXX debian site dead ?
https://wiki.debian.org/pmount
https://github.com/MisterDA/pmount ???? no clue
====== recode ======
https://github.com/pinard/Recode
https://github.com/rrthomas/recode (ahead)
 ^^^ refs rrthomas https://www.gnu.org/software/recode/
====== sendEmail ======
https://github.com/mogaal/sendemail
copied from orig
====== wallpaperd ======
converted to web.archive.org - voidsources ?
====== xskat ======
fork ? https://github.com/mfrasca/xskat
nothing else i can find

====== winusb ======
https://web.archive.org/web/20210228120035/http://en.congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html
ponce.cc/slackware is up. but winusb is pre-fork woeusb
----- WoeUSB ------
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-frontend-wxgtk
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng
updated ???
```

github is still up but homepages are taken down

```
dfc
embb
fastd
glide
horst
qtcurve
ruby-hpricot
usbmuxd
whowatch
xstarter
xz (ya...)
```

looks like original owner

```
====== gede ====== https://gede.dexar.se/
====== libesmtp ====== https://ftp.osuosl.org/welcome.msg ???????
====== pcsxr ====== https://github.com/pcsxr - codeplex dead
====== phonon-qt5 ====== https://userbase.kde.org/Phonon
====== phonon-qt5-backend-gstreamer ====== https://userbase.kde.org/Phonon
====== phonon-backend-vlc ====== https://userbase.kde.org/Phonon
```