[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

[Denis Dupeyron <calchan@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Last rites cancelled; found a version bump'ed distfile via icculus, so
> this one can live a little longer.

I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial
package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at the time was that
if upstream disappears there's a good chance, depending on why that
happens, we can qualify the software as abandonware and the no mirror
restriction may become moot. At that point we could push the distfiles
to our mirrors. Note that this particular software still requires
original installation media (on top of the 1GB+ distfiles) and a
minimum of 1 but up to 3 valid license keys to install and then run.

My point here is we could do this preemptively and more or less
systematically in order to avoid being in the situation above. This
could even be easily automated. The worst that can happen is we
archive a few distfiles for nothing, which isn't a big price to pay.

Denis.