Re: jessie-backports Release file expiry

The ftpmaster team own the archival process at the moment.

I guess the attack valid-until protects against is irrelevant by the
time a suite is archived so there's an argument to drop it, but I'll
defer to ftpmaster on what they want to do.

Cheers,
Julien

On Tue, Apr  2, 2019 at 14:39:30 +0530, Jain Johny wrote:

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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
> >