Re: Old information at http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/errata
Jens Seidel wrote:
> Hi ftpmasters,
>
> Can you tell us where the woody-proposed-updates can be found? Did you
> forgot to create these?
Do you realise that woody is not supported anymore for some years and
that woody-proposed-updates probably never existed? Maybe there was
already a stable-proposed-updates though...
Cheers
Luk
> 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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