Control: retitle -1 packages.d.o: how to manage archived suites ? Hi,
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:10:35AM +0400, Dmitry G. Protasov wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: normal > > It is unable to get any package for the oldstable (lenny) distribution > due incorrect links at http://packages.debian.org/lenny. For example, > all the links at page http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/ntp/download > will give 404 error as an user tries to download the ntp package. > There must be a link to archive.debian.org repository. http://packages.debian.org/ used to offer a view of the current unarchived packages suites: main archive, backports, debports.. http://archive.debian.net/ used to offer a view of archived packages suites, and offers lenny. However, I'd like to discuss this statuquo: 1/ archive.debian.net is not an official service (though well maintained 2/ archive.debian.net is not well advertised 3/ packages.debian.org could offset a view to archived packages too, that's what http://packages.ubuntu.com/ does, and it it allows link persistence 4/ we could redirect http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/ntp/download to http://archive.debian.net/lenny/i386/ntp/download Frank, others, what's your feeling ? -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130916191417.GA23992@toshi