Re: Nested folders under debian-security

On Fri, 2026-04-03 at 09:10 +0200, Sinisa Gujic wrote:
> While browsing debian security in official mirror i=C2=A0noticed that
> updates folder has 20+ nested folders named =E2=80=9Cupdates".
>=20
> For example:
> =C2=A0http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/trixie-security/updates=
/
> updates/updates/updates/updates/=C2=A0and so on..
>=20
> Not sure if this is on purpose or not, thus reporting this as a bug.
> I tried to look if someone else reported it already but could not
> find anything.

They're not actually nested, rather "updates" is a symlink to ".".
That's a side-effect of the fact that the canonical method of referring
to security suites in APT sources used to be "foo/updates" rather than
"foo-security".

I don't know whether there's any current reason for the symlink to
exist, given that all supported suites use the new form, but that's not
something that the mirrors team can change.

Regards,

Adam