Re: Wheezy LTS not present in archive.debian.org
On 17/03/2020 03:58, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 16:29 +0100, Piviul wrote:
>> Sylvain Beucler ha scritto il 06/03/20 alle 13:14:
>>> [...]
>>> Good question :)
>>>
>>> Snapshot saved the deb7u16 update as part of wheezy-security in 2018:
>>> https://snapshot.debian.org/package/samba/2%3A3.6.6-6%2Bdeb7u16/
>>>
>>> There's a modified copy of Wheezy LTS as part of the ELTS project
>>> (deb7u19, 2019):
>>> https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/
>>> https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/s/samba/
>>>
>>> I also see there's a copy of Squeeze LTS in the Debian archive:
>>> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-lts/
>>> and a copy of Wheezy pre-LTS (2016):
>>> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/
>>> but there's no copy of Wheezy LTS.
>>>
>>> Anybody knows if there's an archived copy of Wheezy LTS/pre-ELTS?
>> I have to guess that nobody have to spend time to know why LTS/pre-ELTS
>> packages are not gone in debian wheezy archive?
>>
>> ...I can understand. Any way "normally" when a distribution is archived
>> all LTS security updates should be end in archived repos?
>
> During the full support period, all security updates are rolled up into
> point releases of the corresponding suite in the main archive, and that
> suite is copied to archive.debian.org later.
>
> During the extended support period covered by the LTS team, there are
> no more point releases and so security updates are not copied to the
> main archive, or from there to archive.debian.org. (But squeeze-lts
> was on the main archive, so it was copied along with the main squeeze
> suite.)
>
> So it seems that we are lacking a procedure for archiving a suite from
> the security archive.
Actually it was properly archived, but under /debian-security/, e.g.:
http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/dists/wheezy/updates/
Cheers,
Emilio
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