[MacPorts] #29806: BibTool: checksum mismatch due to misconfigured server

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#29806: BibTool: checksum mismatch due to misconfigured server
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 Reporter:  ryandesign@…             |       Owner:  tristan@…               
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                     
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:                          
Component:  ports                    |     Version:  1.9.2                   
 Keywords:                           |        Port:  BibTool                 
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 The BibTool port fails to fetch properly:

 {{{
 --->  Attempting to fetch BibTool-2.48.tar.gz from http://tug.ctan.org
 /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
 Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
 Speed
 100  7908    0  7908    0     0  13087      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
 19477
 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for BibTool
 DEBUG: checksum phase started at Sun Jun 12 23:39:58 CDT 2011
 DEBUG: Executing org.macports.checksum (BibTool)
 --->  Checksumming BibTool-2.48.tar.gz
 Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for BibTool-2.48.tar.gz
 Portfile checksum: BibTool-2.48.tar.gz md5
 20ebb18ea55e5f64b67f5b8edaa0d6fa
 Distfile checksum: BibTool-2.48.tar.gz md5
 fb1ac7494a261f7745624097eb4f6e3e
 The correct checksum line may be:
 checksums           md5     fb1ac7494a261f7745624097eb4f6e3e \
                     sha1    2fd9eb9fba50f59d119c6e2fcb8f4addccb16c6b \
                     rmd160  c0dc8f4d9bdeb2b292525d375d2a56a3b619f5d2
 ***
 The non-matching file appears to be HTML. See this page for possible
 reasons
 for the checksum mismatch:
 <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers>
 ***
 }}}

 The reason is that upstream has updated the software to a new version and
 removed the old file http://tug.ctan.org/tex-
 archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.48.tar.gz. When you request
 the old file, you get a page that says "Note: you requested the material
 at a path /biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.48.tar.gz that doesn't
 exist. This is the closest directory".

 Upstream should not remove old distfiles, and upstream should return a
 proper 404 error code when requested URLs do not exist. Not doing so
 causes problems for MacPorts, as you can see. Please report these issues
 to upstream.

 I'll submit a separate ticket to request this port be updated to the
 latest version, but that will only temporarily hide this problem (until a
 new version is released), so these issues do still need to be fixed
 upstream.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29806>
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