[As a general note, the primary contact point for possible mirror issues is mirrors@d.o, not debian-devel]
On Sat, 2024-04-27 at 12:16 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > it should be possible to reach archive.debian.org via rsync, however > this fails for me. Is this intentional, or can this be fixed? > It's intentional using the name archive.debian.org, yes. That name points to a CDN frontend, which doesn't have rsync available. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors-announce/2023/11/msg00000.html I've attempted to update the mirrors list input file to use the newer name for rsync. We'll have to see if that works once things get rebuilt. > Further it seems mirrors are out of sync. I noticed that several > mirrors lack buster. According to timestamps on archive.debian.org > these directories were added on 2024-03-10 -- is it usual for mirror > delays to be this long? Can you be more specific as to which mirrors you're talking about? I'd also be interested as to why you feel you need to use a mirror rather than simply archive.debian.org itself. > Seeing mirror functionality being uncertain, I have started to track > archive.debian.org as a Git-LFS repository on gitlab.com. Please don't. If there's a problem with debian.org services then we should fix that, not start adding more copies of terabytes of data on third-party services. Regards, Adam