Re: Old information at http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/errata
Hi ftpmasters,
Can you tell us where the woody-proposed-updates can be found? Did you
forgot to create these?
For your reference:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 14:15 +0100 schrieb Jens Seidel:
> > Ralph probably forgot a "apt-get update" but nevertheless the following
> > APT source does no longer exist:
> >
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US proposed-updates/non-US main contrib non-free
> >
> > Does anyone know a mirror for Woody and other (older?) systems?
>
> As archive.debian.org lives in US TTBOMK it doesn't carry the non-US
> part, and I'm not aware of any archive-non-US host ...
>
> But this exists:
> #v+
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody-proposed-updates/non-US main contrib non-free
> #v-
>
> I guess non-us.d.o itself is the archive for the non-us parts anyway.
>
> > Also the usage of
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian proposed-updates main contrib non-free
> > in hour site is bad as it refers now probably to Etch whereas it referred
> > in the past to Woody. We should use code names instead.
>
> Indeed - unfortunately I don't see any woody-proposed-updates on
> archive.debian.org? Were there none when woody got moved to the archive?
> I would guess even then it would be a good idea to have (empty) files
> there -- on the other hand people have to edit their sources.list anyway
> to use the archive.
>
> > Where are currently proposed updates for Woody?
>
> There are none.
>
> > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/ lists sarge-proposed-updates/,
> > etch-proposed-updates/, lenny-proposed-updates/, oldstable-proposed-updates/
> > but no woody-proposed-updates/ or oldoldstable-proposed-updates/ :-)
>
> Because woody got removed from the mirrors and moved to the archive.
>
> > Even http://archive.debian.org/dists/ misses woody-proposed-updates/ but
> > provides {hamm,potato,slink}-proposed-updates.
>
> See above about my guessings along that lines.
>
> > > Would it make sense to update some links to old releases to point to
> > > http://archive.debian.org/? Probably not ...
> >
> > Oops, Ralph convinced me that it is important to update even old release
> > pages as Woody may still be used in production (even I have still such a
> > old system).
>
> And it had been done in the past, see e.g. potato pages.
>
> > I will try to update the pages but need at least woody-proposed-updates ...
>
> You don't "need" them. If it was empty it gains nothing to list it, but
> if it wasn't (which I have no idea about - propably the people doing the
> move to the archive know?) it should get fixed.
>
> So long,
> Rhonda
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