Re: Trying to resolve issues with home page busybox.net

On 24 Apr 2026 at 0:22, Pierre-Elliott B=C3=A9cue wrote:

From:	Pierre-Elliott B=C3=A9cue <[email protected]>
To:	"Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]>
Copies to:	[email protected]
Subject:	Re: Trying to resolve issues with home page busybox.net
Date sent:	Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:22:53 +0200

> Hello,
> 
> "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> wrote on 21/04/2026 at 17:40:29+=
0200:
> 
> > Trying to contact maintainer at list addresses get no response.
> > trying his redhat.com address also get no respone.
> > Message on list are between users, no maintainer or users that 
> > handle site work.
> > Also messages to the Hosting Oregon site don't provide info.
> >
> > Problem.
> > Main page shows 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
> > Site has like 45 - 404 errors and 3 403 errors on main page.
> > If one download the link to busybox 1.37.0 the bz2 file is from that 
> > date with no updates.
> > 1.37.0 git is one of the broken links.
> > If one does a git clone or git pull it is downloading 1.38 which does 
> > have some activity. The snapshot directory has 32 files listed.
> > Last 31 days and a snapshot listing that is same as last days image.
> > At the moment the files fall into two groups of identicle files.
> > 2669360 Mar 22 10:20 busybox-20260322.tar.bz2 File 01 to 22
> > 2669851 Apr 13 10:20 busybox-20260413.tar.bz2  File 23 to 32
> >
> > So, Main Page has lots of broken links, and no reference to the 
> > 1.38 git??
> 
> Debian does not manage busybox.net, we can't help you with the site's
> situation.
> 
> > AI did mentiono your page having activity, so looked for some info
> >
> > Did notice somewhat outdated copyright?
> >
> > Debian Package Tracker =E2=80=94 Copyright 2013-2025 The Distro 
> > Tracker Developers
> 
> tracker.debian.org's source code did not get updated since 2025, so
> this is ~normal.
> 
> > Thanks. Have a project going back to 2004 that uses busybox, and 
> > updates were generally about 1/2 year until 1.37 when main page 
> > stopped. mailing list mentioned the git, and that has worked, but 
> > see other things. 1.37 is listed as unstable, with 136.1 being last 
> > stable listing. compairing the 1.37 bz2 to the latest 1.38 snapshot 
> > bz2 shows about 12,000 lines added and 6,0000 lines removed.
> > So has been significant changes.
> 
> Debian doesn't ship unreleased busybox versions, so you'll have to wait.

Thanks for the quick reply.  Unfortunately, the last stable release of 
busybox would then be 136.1 
 busybox-1.36.1.tar.bz2  2023-05-18 22:37  2.4M 
27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
 busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2  2024-09-26 21:31  2.4M 

Latest snap versions with differences from busybox.net.
busybox-20260325.tar.bz2    2669360 2026-03-25 (FILE 01)
busybox-20260413.tar.bz2    2669851 2026-04-13 (FILE 20)
Which include a number of security patches for known issues.

Again thanks for your reply.


> 
> -- 
> PEB
> 


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