Brian, it would be helpful if that script could somehow figure out which ebuilds the “death watch” files used to belong to, so it could drop an e-mail to the maintainer before dropping them (or just to gentoo-dev, if the former is too difficult). A weekly e-mail wouldn’t be too bad.
[Gentoo] Dropping stuff from mirrors
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