Re: Wheezy LTS not present in archive.debian.org
Hi,
On 17/03/2020 10:00, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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/
Good catch!
I documented this at:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/FAQ#Where_are_past_LTS_releases_archived.3F
Cheers!
Sylvain
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