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STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README



While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory".

That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose first link is to "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README"; [NOTE BENE quotation marks].

That file (in part) reads:


Unstable, or sid.  Access this release through dists/unstable.  The
current development snapshot is named sid.  Untested candidate
packages for future releases.

Older releases of Debian are at http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive

--- Other directories:

I pointed my browser to "http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive"; and got:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache Server at archive.debian.org Port 80

Suspecting a bad URL I went back to "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/";
whose HTML reads in part:

<h2>Old Releases</h2>

<p>Older releases of Debian are at
<a href="http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/";>http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive</a>
<br>
<a href="https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive";>More information</a>
</p>


and chose the link titled "README.html". It displayed *properly*.

I went back to the link triggering the "404 error" and added a trailing "/" to the URL. It *then* displayed properly.

Is this a typo or a server problem?
[ understand "STRANGENESS" in my Subject: line? ;]





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