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Environment breakage: gitlab.freedesktop.org is undergoing maintenance until 2025-03-22 #44429

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50 different ports use a GITLAB_URL based on gitlab.freedesktop.org. This code host is unavailable due to a planned migration from March 16 2025 until March 22 2025.

This affects the following ports, from my git grep --files-with-matches "GITLAB_URL https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/" on 782ccc1 :

  • dbus
  • fdk-aac
  • font-util
  • freetype
  • libdmx
  • libfontenc
  • libfs
  • libice
  • libslirp
  • libsm
  • libx11
  • libxau
  • libxaw
  • libxcomposite
  • libxcvt
  • libxdamage
  • libxdmcp
  • libxext
  • libxfixes
  • libxfont
  • libxft
  • libxi
  • libxinerama
  • libxkbfile
  • libxmu
  • libxpm
  • libxpresent
  • libxrandr
  • libxrender
  • libxres
  • libxscrnsaver
  • libxt
  • libxtst
  • libxv
  • libxxf86vm
  • pipewire
  • pthread-stubs
  • xbitmaps
  • xcb-image
  • xcb-keysyms
  • xcb-proto
  • xcb-render-util
  • xcb-util-errors
  • xcb-util-m4
  • xcb-util-wm
  • xcb-util
  • xcb
  • xorg-macros
  • xproto
  • xtrans

Onto a question: What is the solution here for FOSS community projects? It's my expectation that the answer for enterprise customers is "set up an asset cache". But doing so for a community project is a bit harder of an ask.

Is there a mirror feature in the pipeline? If not, count this as a feature request for a simple and/or default configured mirror feature to avoid/mitigate environment outages like this in the future.

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