Re: Bug#25189: ftp site reorganisation breaks production server support

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

reassign 25189 ftp.debian.org
thanks

[Forwarded to debian-devel since it is a major concern and not only
a bug]

Simon Mackinlay writes:
> The transitioning of debian-1.3 from your archives has led to an
> extremely difficult position, commercially; Servers in production
> environments *cannot* afford either the downtime or the consulting
> dollars necessary to upgrade from a stable platform, for little or
> no tangible gain.
> 
> Removing the stable distribution without advance warning has left
> vendors providing support for these systems caught between a rock
> and a hard place; we can no longer maintain said systems, as the
> necessary packages are no longer available.

Since bo and hamm are not compatible (although you can easily upgrade
from a bo to a hamm machine) this is a problem.

Still there's the possibility to purchase a bo cd if the particular
company should not have one at all.

> Could you *please* put this distribution back online, and in future
> provide *at least* six months warning before deleting distributions
> wholesale from your archive?

Normally this is not needed since there normally are not that severe
changes to the release.  This means: hamm and slink are compatible,
hamm and what comes after slink will be, too.

There are at least two servers that still ship bo:

ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/

http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/

Regards,

	Joey

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