UFAS fonts: fix disappearing source

[neilmayhew]

archive.org dropped some of its snapshots which broke the source URLs. Switch to using an older snapshot at archive.org.

Closes #425166

Things done

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[neilmayhew]

cc @Ate329

[Ate329]

LGTM

[ethancedwards8]

:( whats the point of archive.org if they can just drop stuff? I didn't realize they did that!

[neilmayhew]

It does seem strange. However, since those files haven't changed since 2020 maybe they figured out that those snapshots were redundant? It does require a lot of resources to keep everything and archive.org doesn't have unlimited amounts of money.

For that reason I wondered how safe a 2022 snapshot is, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Perhaps someone will see this issue if the URL ever breaks again, and will then know to go back to 2020.

[Ate329]

It's been quite unfortunate that we can no longer download Symbola directly from dn-works. I hope more reliable and secure options become available, but for now, I think archive.org is the best one 😢

[woffs]

needs to be backported to 25.05:

$ NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix build --impure -f flake:nixpkgs/nixos-25.05 symbola -L
source> 
source> trying https://web.archive.org/web/20240212172059/https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Fonts/Symbola.zip
source>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
source>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
source>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
source>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:02 --:--:--     0
source> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404

[nixpkgs-ci]

Successfully created backport PR for release-25.05:

• [Backport release-25.05] UFAS fonts: fix disappearing source #431982