Re: git: 5a83e5118a3a - main - archivers/grzip: Update 0.3.0 => 0.3.1

On 2026-02-26 14:57, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Vladimir Druzenko (vvd@freebsd.org):
> 
>> > Upstream as in last known author, Grebnov Ilya.
>> Are you ready to look for him?
> 
> It doesn't take much looking to find https://github.com/IlyaGrebnov -
> remarkably interested in Burrows-Wheeler based compression, and
> https://compressionratings.com/a_ilya_grebnov.html actually connects
> name and projects. Could be a start...
These weren't here when I adopted the port. Nor was there any replies
received from emails sent to the authors (then) address. I don't see
that he's still developing the port (as per github). Only the link
at https://compressionratings.com. Which is only a link to an archive.
So not much different than  I was already doing.
The site doesn't have appeared to have been updated since 2012. I'll
send another email to the author in hopes of a reply.
> 
> Please:
> Make switching forks an actual, obvious, and documented event in
> the commit message. Unfortunately, we live in a time where you
> sometimes cannot trust search results for popular software, and
> "various actors" take over repositories and distribution channels.
> We should aim to keep very proper paper trails of this.
Consider this the "paper trail". :)
> 
> And now to the question of the value of a software which the original
> author abandoned 20 years ago and went on to develop a series of
> successors to that software... you know the spiel.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph

--Chris