Re: oldstable-backports suite causes debmirror to choke

[Vivian Pots <vivian@chinstrap.org>]

It's due to it expecting the suite being set to bullseye-backports 
rather than oldstable-backports. The signature is not expired on the 
release.

Errors:
 Broken Release file: neither Codename nor Suite matches 
oldstable-backports

https://ftp.osuosl.org/debian/dists/bullseye-backports/Release

On 10/03/2025 09:51, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 10:24:41AM -0500, Vivian Pots wrote:
> > oldstable-backports suite is set to bullseye-backports, which causes
> > debmirror to fail with "neither Codename nor Suite matches
> > oldstable-backports" when trying to mirror using the name
> > oldstable-backports, considering the oldstable-backports Release as invalid.
>
> As the error message says the release file is invalid.
> oldstable-backports is not supported anymore, therefore the signature on
> the release file is probably expired.
>
> Alex