Re: Short Reminder: jessie-backport deprecation
On Fri, 08 Jun 2018, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
>
> > These two files are what I have in our local documentation for squeeze
> > +(+lts backports), but I haven't tested it recently:
> >
> > /etc/apt/sources.list:
> > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
> > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free
> > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main contrib non-free
>
> This will work (s!debian-backports!debian! for post-squeeze), but…
>
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01local:
> > Acquire::Check-Valid-Until false;
>
> this will unfortunately not be enough in the long term,
> as the PGP signatures will expire (rather, the keys).
>
> I wish there were an APT option to say, per repository,
> “this is archived, check the signature as if it were
> the yyyy-mm-dd today, then pin it and error out if it
> changes”.
>
> The thing is, for the duration of LTS, the base system
> will continue to get select updates (sometimes even
> better ones than other releases get), but there’s no
> way for uploaders who do care to update the backports,
> i.e. they’ll be frozen. (I assume this also applies to
> -sloppy, which is even more a PITA as testing is cur‐
> rently still moving.) I do understand the manpower and
> rules issue though… (@Alex: my offer from Hamburg is
> still valid, if you wish.)
This is not an ftpmaster issue. The maintainers failed to support lts.
Alex
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