Re: jessie-backports Release file expiry

Jain Johny <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:39:30 +0530
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On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:49 AM Jain Johny <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When this repo was archived, shouldn't it be set not to expire?
>
> $ curl -s http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/Release
> | grep Valid
> Valid-Until: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:25:43 UTC
>
> This is forcing users to use "check-valid-until=no" [1].
>
> The wheezy-backports do not have this problem.
>
> I am not sure if "check-valid-until=no" is the right way forward or will
> the repo get updated in the future to remove this expiry date. Can any of
> you please confirm?
>
> Jain.
>
> [1]
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/508724/failed-to-fetch-jessie-backports-repository
>