Re: Contacting administrators of debian mirrors

On further investigation, it looks like all of these are my fault: "curl"
by default doesn't handle HTTP redirects. Turning that option on makes all
of these apparent errors go away.

This makes the source of my CI errors a mystery again, but perhaps whoever
it was has coincidentally fixed their issue.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 7:18 PM Fergus Dall <[email protected]> wrote:

> I recently discovered issues with several public mirrors listed on
> debian.org and tried to get into contact with their administrators, but I
> was only able to find plausible email addresses for 2 out of 5 mirrors. Is
> there a standard way to get this information? Alternatively, can someone on
> this list get in contact with the mirrors below?
>
> Details on the issue:
>
> I have a CI build that (among other things) sets up a stretch image and
> tries to install some packages on it. For some time now it has been
> sporadically failing to download and verify gnome-user-guide version 3.22.0
> (available at
> /pool/main/g/gnome-user-docs/gnome-user-guide_3.22.0-1_all.deb). The CI
> system uses the CDN at deb.debian.org to pick a mirror, so there wasn't
> any easy way to find the source of the corrupted package and eventually I
> decided to just check all the public mirrors for this file and see who's
> version differed. Note that I *only* checked this one file, there is
> every possibility that there are more corrupt files on these or other
> mirrors.
>
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/
> Contacted [email protected] per the footer message on each page
> This appears to be the primary mirror for both Finland and Sweden
>
> http://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/debian/
> Contacted [email protected] per the instructions at
> https://ftp.mpi-inf.mpg.de/pub/welcome.msg
>
> http://debian.uvigo.es/debian/
> Uncontacted
>
> http://mirror.i3d.net/debian/
> Uncontacted
>
> http://mirrors.pardisco.co/debian/
> Uncontacted
>