Re: snapshot.d.o has been in a bad state for several months
On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 01:33:11PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> snapshot.debian.org is getting worse again. There is not a single snapshot for
> August yet and the last days of July are spotty:
>
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/?year=2023&month=7
>
> None for the 29. and only a single timestamp for the 26., 27., 28. and 30.
> There should be four per day. The situation is even worse for other archives.
> For debian-ports, for the month of July, there are only 22 snapshots overall:
>
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/?year=2023&month=7
>
> This problem has been known for half a year already:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031628
>
> But that bug got closed in favor of #1029744 which was filed because
> debian-ports had no snapshots at all for January and only three for February
> this year but there is no reply to that bug.
>
> In #1031628 Julien said that there is "not much we can do about it at the
> moment".
>
> What is the status of this problem? What is needed to fix it? Is this just a
> problem of computational and/or storage resources which an be fixed by the
> funds available to Debian?
I was curious about this, since I rely on snapshots.debian.org in
order to create repeatable builds for a file system test appliance, so
I started digging a bit. Looking at the debian-bugs pseudo-package
"snapshot.debian.org":
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=snapshot.debian.org
the maintainer is listed as:
"snapshot.debian.org Team <debian-snapshot@lists.debian.org>"
But according to lists.debian.org, "debian-shaphots" is a dead list,
and apparently the last archived message to the list is from September
2001:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-snapshots/
That seems.... unfortunate.
- Ted
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