Today morning, I was building an AMD SEV virtual machine from source. It requires TianoCore/edk2, “the reference implementation of UEFI by Intel”. While the build script cloned SubhookLib/subhook, I was asked for a Github username and password: This set off alarm bells. After a quick search through the issues in AMD SEV’s repository leading to no result, I decided to go through edk2’s code. In particular, the .gitmodules file: ... [submodule "

Tl;Dr: Zeex/subhook, an 800+ star repository, went offline. A few big repositories depend on it as a submodule.

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  • @[email protected]English
    27•23 days ago

    My guess is that somebody has already forked it if it’s a dependency and so somebody else will just republish it.

    • A Basil PlantOPEnglish
      27•23 days ago

      Yep, a few forks were identified within a few hours. I think the maintainers had forks too.