I’ve formerly tried to build some old stuff no longer packaged by Debian/Ubuntu for whatever reason, and trying to hunt down all the dependencies and sources weren’t always easy.
Something like this would have been great back then.
I wonder what a project needs to do to ensure they have their code archived for the future too.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 30.6 ms ] threadI’ve formerly tried to build some old stuff no longer packaged by Debian/Ubuntu for whatever reason, and trying to hunt down all the dependencies and sources weren’t always easy.
Something like this would have been great back then.
I wonder what a project needs to do to ensure they have their code archived for the future too.
If your project is on one of the forges/package-managers listed at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ , SWH will discover it automatically.
If not, you can use the "Save Code Now" button on the same page, to make SWH discover your repository, and it will be visited periodically.