Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #13186, comment 14


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Mar 21, 2025, 4:52:12 PM (12 days ago)
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Robin Candau

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  • Ticket #13186, comment 14

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    88Well, Filezilla is now one of the software for which we unfortunately have to do all of this manually... Indeed, due to the now "unstable" nature of the download URL for the source tarball, this process can't be automated anymore as it's impossible for automated scripts / tooling to "predict" the random part of the link (which is the whole point, right...).
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    10 That means distributions now have to manually download Filezilla source tarballs and manually upload them on their side in order to host and redistribute them. And that is true for each Filezilla  related packages they offer through their repositories (meaning at least filezilla and libfilezilla) multiplied by the number of versions they offer accros their different repositories (for instance, for those who simultaneously maintain multiple releases of their distribution).
     10That means distributions now have to manually download Filezilla source tarballs and manually upload them on their side in order to host and redistribute them. And that is true for each Filezilla  related packages they offer through their repositories (meaning at least filezilla and libfilezilla) multiplied by the number of versions of those packages they offer accros their different repositories (for instance, for those who simultaneously maintain multiple releases of their distribution).
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    1212I'm aware this might not sound as complex as it actually is but, in the management context of a Linux distribution (meaning with numerous individuals involved accros different roles, each having different processes, level of accesses and permissions over the different infrastructure components and package repositories), it actually is quite cumbersome...