Subject: Re: bug#47470: missing source crypto++

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:32:57 -0400

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 05:17:31PM +0200, zimoun wrote:
> The easy fix is to replace by <https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp>;
> keeping url-fetch or replacing by git-fetch.

I saw you used --no-substitutes. Did you try requesting a substitute for
the source code?

Anyways, the cryptopp.com site was online as recently as March 26, only
3 days ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210326063427/https://www.cryptopp.com/

It's being discussed upstream:

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1022

Maybe we should just wait a few hours before changing the source of the
package.