Request: replace launchpad sources with stable mirrors

[ReenigneArcher]

Launchpad is not a stable source. It either does rate limiting or goes down often enough that it causes regular build failures.

Would it be possible to replace these source with stable mirrors, preferably something hosted on GitHub (gitlab can also be flaky)

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aflathub%2Fshared-modules%20launchpad&type=code

[bbhtt]

This must be new. Do you have a link to the build log where it got rate limited?

Instead of replacing it'd be better to add some mirror-urls.

[ReenigneArcher]

I get errors somewhat regularly for the past several months, here's the latest:

https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/actions/runs/21674346040/job/62490372883

It's always a launchpad source that causes it.

[hfiguiere]

Sadly Launchpad is the canonical (pun not intended) source for intltool

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/intltool/

So maybe file an issue with Canonical (they operate Launchpad), or the intltool maintainers (they could upload the tarballs to GNOME FTP again).

[ReenigneArcher]

It's not just intltool, it's others that are hosted on launchpad. Typically intltool is the one that fails though, but sometimes that one succeeds and later ones fail.

These are just annoying intermittent failures, but it's extra annoying because I have to wait for all other builds to complete and then re-run the jobs.

I think flathub could mirror these somewhere to a github resource and then the problem would be solved. Then the only time it would fail is if github is already having issues, which likely actions would be degraded anyway.

[bbhtt]

Flathub's own build service does cache these dependencies so it should not happen there. If you are using them outside of Flathub I suggest having some caching. A simple actions/cache caching .flatpak-builder/downloads will prevent redownload. These sources will never be updated to newer versions, so it would hit the cache always.

Anyway I added some mirror URLs. If launchpad is down or ratelimited flatpak-builder will automatically switch to alternative URLs.