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fetchFromSavannah: deprecate 

The Savannah administrators do not want package maintainers to use
cgit snapshots due to putting strain on the servers and have disabled
cgit snapshots for most if not all of their repositories.

See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2025-12/msg00014.html



Co-authored-by: default avatarPhilip Taron <philip.taron@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: default avatarLIN, Jian <me@linj.tech>
parent 49961d37

doc/build-helpers/fetchers.chapter.md

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When `fetchgit` is used, refer to the `fetchgit` section for documentation of its available options.



## `fetchFromSavannah` {#fetchfromsavannah}



This is used with Savannah repositories. The arguments expected are very similar to `fetchFromGitHub` above.



## `fetchFromRepoOrCz` {#fetchfromrepoorcz}



This is used with repo.or.cz repositories. The arguments expected are very similar to `fetchFromGitHub` above.

doc/redirects.json

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@@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ 
    "release-notes.html#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-breaking"

  ],

  "sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-deprecations": [

    "release-notes.html#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-deprecations"

    "release-notes.html#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-deprecations",

    "index.html#fetchfromsavannah"

  ],

  "sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-additions-improvements": [

    "release-notes.html#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-additions-improvements"
@@ -1779,9 +1780,6 @@ 
  "fetchfrombitbucket": [

    "index.html#fetchfrombitbucket"

  ],

  "fetchfromsavannah": [

    "index.html#fetchfromsavannah"

  ],

  "fetchfromrepoorcz": [

    "index.html#fetchfromrepoorcz"

  ],

doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md

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- `mpv-unwrapped.scripts` and `mpv-unwrapped.wrapper` have been removed. Please use `mpvScripts` and `mpv.override` accordingly.



- `fetchFromSavannah` is now deprecated and is expected to be fully removed in a future release. From now on, use `fetchgit` or a Savannah releases mirror when applicable.



### Additions and Improvements {#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-additions-improvements}

pkgs/build-support/fetchsavannah/default.nix

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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ lib.makeOverridable ( 
    name ? repoRevToNameMaybe repo rev "savannah",

    ... # For hash agility

  }@args:

  let

    result =

      fetchzip (

        {

          inherit name;
@@ -30,5 +32,7 @@ lib.makeOverridable ( 
      )

      // {

        inherit rev;

  }

      };

  in

  lib.warnOnInstantiate "`fetchFromSavannah` is deprecated and will be removed in a future release." result

)