Re: Removal of buster-backports from the debian archive.

Hi Alexander!
There is something that I don't understand. How are we supposed to
follow this move from mirrors to archive.debian.org then if there is no
fixed date when BPO will be removed form mirrors?

Will bullseye-backports be available from August 15th in the
archive.debian.org mirror?

A bit of context:
The recent removal of buster-backports broke our CI [1], we fixed it by
redeploying Debian Buster images with the correct sources.list (our VMs
are based on cloud-init images [2] that still contain the wrong
sources.list as of today BTW).

Can you point me to the right direction/documentation or how you would
handle this?

Thanks!

-- 
Faustin

[1] https://buildbot.mariadb.org/#/builders/436/builds/15268/steps/2/logs/stdio
[2] https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/buster/latest/

Alexander Wirt <[email protected]>,
16/04/2024 – 22:08:54 (+0200):

> Hi, 
> 
> Debian Backports does not support LTS [1], therefore buster-backports is unsupported since August 1st
> 2022. Despite of the documentation buster-backport was still available on the mirrors, that changed
> recently with the archival of buster-backports. Unfortunately I missed to create an announcement in
> 2022 which led so some surprise, I have to apologize for that. Please take this as the missing
> announcement. 
> 
> Short reminder: on August 15th bullseye-backports will be deprecated and can be removed at any time
> from the mirrors after that date. A seperate announcement will follow in August.
> 
> 
> formorer - backports ftpmaster
> 
> [1] https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index4h2 - 
>   Second, Packages in backports-sloppy are
>   provided "as-is" and have no official support. Like old-stable-backports,
>   old-stable-backports-sloppy is taken offline one year after a new Debian release has been made.
>

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