- i'd rather see a poll asking:

"The problem with maemo.org is:"

1. Someone at Nokia is incompetent.

2. Someone at Nokia ticked off a developer with access to maemo.org.

3. There is malicious activity going on at maemo.org.

4. The repositories are being emptied deliberately.

(i'd be inclined to vote for 1, 3, or 4; at any rate it is very interesting that the very day a workaround for the broken repository is posted, the stage.repository dir was emptied of all .deb files)

Why Nokia is doing this is beyond comprehension.