Bug#505754: marked as done (www.debian.org: wrong url provided in README file on archive.debian.org)

[Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>]

Hello,

I suggest an other way to fix this bug.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:09:08PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:42:04 +0100
> From: Michael Schmitt <mschmitt@unixkiste.org>
> 
> in http://archive.debian.org/debian/README is written:
> 
> If you are using APT the relevent sources.list entries are like:
>   deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ hamm contrib main 
> non-free
> 
> but it should be "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ ..." instead, 
> the provided url gave me a 404 error (tried the sarge archive).
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> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:05:57 +0100
> From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de>
> 
> done, i think

The way it has been fixed makes http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive
outdated, because the path will change between the mirror at
archive.debian.org and other Archive-old mirrors.

/debian-archive/ has path for all mirrors would be better because not
misleading.

Currently:
* all or most mirrors but archive.d.o have /debian-archive/ as path for
  debian-archive
* On archive.d.o:
  rsync is at ::debian-archive
  ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ show many directories while
ftp://archive.debian.org/debian/ shows debian-archive.

Please make the path consistent with the archive-old mirrors and
meaning.

Best regards.

-- 
Simon Paillard