Start of site migration - repository problem solved
Par Olivier Humbert le dimanche, 19 janvier, 2025, 14h21 - Lien permanent
Hello LibraZiKies!
A quick blog post about the problem of inaccessible repositories for the last 3 weeks.
The rest is below, so enjoy your Sunday reading!
For several months now, there have been a number of problems with the accessibility of the LibraZiK project site and/or repositories. More recently, since the end of December, the repositories are no longer accessible and you are probably encountering warnings when attempting to update Synaptic. The information has been communicated on the LibraZiK Mastodon account.
The reason for these problems is that LibraZiK's historical hoster, named TuxFamily, is slowly dying. And that's OK. Projects are born, they live, and sometimes they die. Some of them have spread far and wide. For more information on this subject, you can read this discussion (in English) on the forums at TuxFamily.
The migration of the various parts of the website to another host has started. So for LibraZiK-4 users, you can download this package and install it with the gdebi software|. This installation will update your LibraZiK-4 repository list, so you should no longer get the Synaptic warning. Please note that we are unlikely to get an update as development work is nowadays directed towards LibraZiK-5. News should follow in the coming weeks/months.
As for the rest of the migration, it's underway and you can follow the progress through the LibraZiK's Mastodon account as well as this blog.
Before saying goodbye, LibraZiK would like to give a standing ovation to those volunteers who have done so much for free software, particularly in the French-speaking world. So thank you, TuxFamily friends. Beers and/or other karma points are owed to you!