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package.yml: Add chunk about proper SourceForge sources #535

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Expand Up @@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ Not all fields in `package.yml` are mandatory, but a small selection are. Below
- If the file resulting from the source download needs to be renamed (often to avoid a name that would conflict with another source), add the preferred name to the URL as a URI fragment.
- Example: `https://github.com/docker/cli/archive/refs/tags/v25.0.3.tar.gz#docker-cli.tar.gz : 04ad0cea992a65db20cb1b0dbf6d1ce32c705ce879de51b22095fe8d28030815`
- This renames the downloaded file from `v25.0.3.tar.gz` to `docker-cli.tar.gz`.
- SourceForge sources
- A proper SourceForge source looks like this, using `hplip` as an example: `https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.23.12/hplip-3.23.12.tar.gz`
- This URL begins with `https://sourceforge.net/`, not `https://downloads.sourceforge.net/`, or some other mirror.
- This URL has a path beginning with `/project/$project_name/`
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- This URL does *not* have a trailing `/download`, you may have to remove this by hand.
- The correct SourceForge tarball URLs are found under the "Files" tab, then often within a directory, when starting from a project homepage on SourceForge.

### Optional, supported keys

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