On 15/01/2022 13:32, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 01:28:16PM +0000, piorunz wrote: [...]But IMHO, burden of keeping all archaeological versions of Debian shouldn't be on Debian Project. There are many volunteers with server storage and bandwidth, they could keep it online, as torrents, etc.I don't understand: are you arguing for Debian to close its archive [1]? Because Debian /is/ providing access to its historical releases. Do you think it should not? Cheers [1] http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/
I didn't say that Debian should close the archive. But maybe people should help with seeding ISO files. I entered random release on archive page, and I can see that torrents are not available. I don't know why, that would help reduce costs to Debian. Unless Archive is already hosted by contributor/volunteer company? That would be great. Also, in the archive you have only Debian releases from 3 onwards. Older releases are not available. And lastly, Debian archive nowhere says and/or guarantees that files will be kept there forever. -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀