On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 29.10.2011 12.39, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > >> >> If the upstream is dead I have no clear idea what to do, but maybe >> infra could set-up something download.gentoo.org where we could keep >> all the files with their sums and gpg sign from us gentoo devs to >> ensure their validity. >> > > The files should stay on our mirrors as long as ebuilds refer to them. > When no ebuilds refer to them do we have any need for the files? > > Regards, > Petteri > >
I think the point that is made is that you have a package that has a dead upstream but for some reason we keep it in the tree. In that case the only copy of the src may be on our mirrors. The real answer IMHO is to fork it and put it on some hosting (doesn't need to be Gentoo hosting, code.google.com / github / whatever.) The mirrors are not designed to persist that kind of data; so folks get upset when the only copy of the source is deleted by the mirror service.
