On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 01:33:11PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > snapshot.debian.org is getting worse again. There is not a single snapshot for > August yet and the last days of July are spotty: > > http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/?year=2023&month=7 > > None for the 29. and only a single timestamp for the 26., 27., 28. and 30. > There should be four per day. The situation is even worse for other archives. > For debian-ports, for the month of July, there are only 22 snapshots overall: > > http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/?year=2023&month=7 > > This problem has been known for half a year already: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031628 > > But that bug got closed in favor of #1029744 which was filed because > debian-ports had no snapshots at all for January and only three for February > this year but there is no reply to that bug. > > In #1031628 Julien said that there is "not much we can do about it at the > moment". > > What is the status of this problem? What is needed to fix it? Is this just a > problem of computational and/or storage resources which an be fixed by the > funds available to Debian?
I was curious about this, since I rely on snapshots.debian.org in order to create repeatable builds for a file system test appliance, so I started digging a bit. Looking at the debian-bugs pseudo-package "snapshot.debian.org": https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=snapshot.debian.org the maintainer is listed as: "snapshot.debian.org Team <debian-snaps...@lists.debian.org>" But according to lists.debian.org, "debian-shaphots" is a dead list, and apparently the last archived message to the list is from September 2001: https://lists.debian.org/debian-snapshots/ That seems.... unfortunate. - Ted
