[maemo-developers] Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Thomas Perl wrote:

> 2010/3/23 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 00:20, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:39:09 Darren Long wrote:
>>>> However, in the general case where the source and the executable are not
>>>> the same, I believe that maemo.org would be obliged to continue to make
>>>> the source available, for at least 3 years.
>> [...]
>> If the source code doesn't accompany every download, then 3a doesn't
>> apply so one of 3b or 3c must.
>> 
>> If 3b applies, maemo.org has to continue to host the source.
> 
> Why not pull the binaries and source packages from the *repositories*
> at the author's request and put them up in a "archival" directory that is
> not exposed via a Debian repository (and therefore not interfering with
> the HAM policy, etc..)?

This of course can be done. I also think it the most sensible solution since it takes the packages out of the repos but preserves them physically for any eventual legal issue.

Niels - do we have a repository expressly for this type of package? And if you could tell me it's location on disk I can move forward with the developer's request if we have consensus.

Jeremiah