On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us > (that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and > clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you.
While that should certainly happen if you want to continue with development, if the concern is that we don't lose the tarballs for the packages in the tree the easiest solution is for the maintainers to grab a copy and stick it in their dev web space and point the SRC_URI there. Unless the project was already in git that is likely to be easier than trying to re-create the same tarballs in some other repo like github. That is, assuming the current fashion is to host stuff like this in dev web space. It seems like that comes and goes, but in the absence of anything better it probably will do and beats having the files just vanish some day. Rich
