Bug 382099

Summary:	valgrind release archive is not maintained
Product:	[Developer tools] valgrind	Reporter:	John Reiser <jreiser>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Julian Seward <jseward>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	pjfloyd, sam
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.13 SVN
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description John Reiser 2017-07-07 13:01:17 UTC

The valgrind release archive at http://valgrind.org/downloads/old.html does not list release 3.5 or anything newer (which would be up through 3.12.0 as of today.)  Old releases are useful for forensics (would a particular bug have been detected by last year's release?) and for studies of software history.  In theory a complete source code revision history tree can provide all the answers, but "there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip" in making an actual release.

File storage space is a consideration: 14MB per recent release.  Other organizations have offered space and set up their copies (https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/ as of today; thank you Mark Wielaard.)  If valgrind chooses not to maintain its own archive and page of links to it, then a polite reference to such known friends would be appropriate.

Comment 1 Paul Floyd 2023-04-27 14:44:44 UTC

sourcware.org is now hosting the Valgrind git repo and I think that the archives on https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/ are fairly complete.

I think that this item can be closed.