Bug#966281: snapshot.debian.org: Older source packages are reported as 403 Forbidden
Package: snapshot.debian.org
Severity: important
While trying to download older versions of a source package with debsnap, the
download fails:
# debsnap -v starfighter
Getting json https://snapshot.debian.org/mr/package/starfighter/
Getting json
https://snapshot.debian.org/mr/package/starfighter/1.7-1/srcfiles?fileinfo=1
Getting dsc file starfighter_1.7-1.dsc:
https://snapshot.debian.org/file/bf3c74cf00a5a326be89a5a7b8365e245f725a64
Getting file starfighter_1.7.orig.tar.gz:
https://snapshot.debian.org/file/1461cccdfbff6f4192ab493be3a8c91815fc7de0
Getting file starfighter_1.7.orig.tar.gz.asc:
https://snapshot.debian.org/file/be295268036ee6a69edeb0d541e39ec3c2b2d44c
Getting file starfighter_1.7-1.debian.tar.xz:
https://snapshot.debian.org/file/e52ec48eeb3d394d11869a02d935f31aeeccd99e
Getting json
https://snapshot.debian.org/mr/package/starfighter/1.6-1/srcfiles?fileinfo=1
Getting dsc file starfighter_1.6-1.dsc:
https://snapshot.debian.org/file/2ee014a7b2102b5cd694d8f6289f29d6155cfc31
Getting file starfighter_1.6.orig.tar.gz:
https://snapshot.debian.org/file/5541ada05c17d69792c353bad5ce52bab662ca1d
Transfer truncated: only 8208384 out of 45840211 bytes received
Upon looking directly at snapshot.debian.org, trying to manually download older
versions of the source (for example the files under
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/starfighter/1.1-5/) I get a 403 Forbidden
HTTP response.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (400, 'unstable'), (390, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-7.1-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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