KDE Gear projects with failing CI (master) (29 April 2025)

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM Justin Zobel <justin at 1707.io> wrote:

> On 30/04/2025 20:38, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM Justin Zobel <justin at 1707.io> wrote:
>
>> On 30/04/2025 06:22, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>
>> Please work on fixing them, otherwise i will remove the failing CI jobs on
>> their 4th failing week, it is very important that CI is passing for multiple
>> reasons.
>>
>> Bad news: 2 repositories have started failing, 2 are still failing
>>
>> Good news: 3 repositories fixed
>>
>> kdenlive - NEW
>>  * https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/pipelines/939952
>>   * flatpak build fails because of dependency server being down
>>
>> Not much KDE contributors can do about source infrastructure being down
>> (likely temporarily).
>>
>> However, I am looking to see if I can get in contact with the owners and
>> see if they are willing to publish their tarballs on a CDN or other
>> distributed channels so we can prevent this in the future.
>>
>
> We've had this issue in Craft previously - and the solution there was for
> us to mirror the sources ourselves - which is something all the
> distributions do as well.
> There has been a patch work of solutions we've worked with in the past in
> this area and is definitely somewhere we need to do better on.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> I've sent the file to Ben to see if we can get it mirrored. I've verified
> it's sha256sum against Solus' build manifest and linked him to Fedora and
> Arch's as well to ensure we have the correct file. The file was sourced it
> from the Web Archive's Wayback Machine (they have an archive of their
> website).
>

That has now been uploaded to
https://files.kde.org/craft/sources/libs/ladspa-sdk/

The issue of archives going down or changing out from underneath us has
been a recurring issue though, and it is questionable (depending on who is
asked) whether we can rely on others serving a copy of the sources to
comply with our GPL obligations.

Cheers,
Ben
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