[RP-PPPoE] 403 when accessing download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.15.tar.gz

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi Dianne,

On 2023/04/27 14:39, Dianne Skoll via RP-PPPoE wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:01:22 +1000 (AEST)
> David Leonard via RP-PPPoE <rp-pppoe at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>
>> Also, could you please consider leaving old versions at the same URL?
>> ... 2021-05-07 isn't _that_ old :)
> Hehe, I guess.  But I do it this way so that automated systems that
> check for new releases fail when trying to get the old release... this
> forces them to look for a current release.

I concur with David ... changing URLs makes the lives of package 
maintainers (which often need to maintain multiple versions for 
different versions of a distribution) somewhat harder.  Eg, we need to 
match version 4.0 against ppp 2.5.0 and 3.15 against <2.5.0 ... so 
depending on what version of ppp is being used by the distribution this 
has to be matched.  Incidentally, gentoo allows for multiple versions, 
and currently for the time being until 2.5.0 is considered stable I 
won't be able stable rp-pppoe 4.0 and thus need to keep 3.15 around for 
the time being at least, and the ppp maintainers need to keep 2.4.9 
around until I've removed rp-pppoe 3.15 from the tree which I can only 
do 60 days after stabling 4.0 (and I generally wait longer just because 
I'd rather look at the older version and not need it, than need it and 
not have it).

I'm not sure what the general approach is to solving the problem.

Kind Regards,
Jaco