Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README
On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 07:35:55 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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? ;]
There seems to be quite a thicket of cross-links in the
archive. If you click on debian/ in the listing at
http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/, you get taken to
http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/, which
appears to be the same as http://archive.debian.org/debian/,
and the latter is what I bookmarked years ago (maybe on the
demise of http://archive.debian.net/, who knows).
http://archive.debian.org/debian/ has frequently come up in
discussions on this list. I find it a much simpler tree to
navigate around, as long as you remember one thing: Until the
pool was created, everything lay under dists/; nowadays,
packages are under pool/, and everything else remains under dists/.
I've not checked to see whether there's a top-level-ish link
to this tree.
Cheers,
David.
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