On 2/28/24 11:22, Florian Smeets wrote:
Ports can be removed immediately if one of the following conditions is
met:
- Upstream distfile is no longer available from the original
source/mirror (Our and other distcaches e.g. Debian, Gentoo, etc do
not count as "available")
Such removal can't be immediate and unconditional.
Software can be perfectly useful and used by many users, but
(1) Some government compelled the upstream developer to remove it for
political reasons, for example to suppress users' privacy. This actually
happened with one port this year when Chinese government forced its
removal. We need to help such software to remain available when many
users exist.
(2) The upstream forgot to renew the domain, so it became temporarily
unavailable.
The situation of apparently disappeared tarballs should be considered on
a case-by-case basis, not in a blanket fashion.
Thanks,
Yuri
