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