On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 07:35:55 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested > debian.org sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that > sub-directory by following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". > > That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose first link is to > "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README"; [NOTE BENE quotation marks]. > > That file (in part) reads: > > > > Unstable, or sid. Access this release through dists/unstable. The > > current development snapshot is named sid. Untested candidate > > packages for future releases. > > > > Older releases of Debian are at http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive > > > > --- Other directories: > > I pointed my browser to "http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive"; and got: > > > Not Found > > > > The requested URL was not found on this server. > > Apache Server at archive.debian.org Port 80 > > Suspecting a bad URL I went back to "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; > whose HTML reads in part: > > > <h2>Old Releases</h2> > > > > <p>Older releases of Debian are at > > <a > > href="http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/";>http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive</a> > > <br> > > <a href="https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive";>More information</a> > > </p> > > > > and chose the link titled "README.html". It displayed *properly*. > > I went back to the link triggering the "404 error" and added a > trailing "/" to the URL. It *then* displayed properly. > > Is this a typo or a server problem? > [ understand "STRANGENESS" in my Subject: line? ;]
There seems to be quite a thicket of cross-links in the archive. If you click on debian/ in the listing at http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/, you get taken to http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/, which appears to be the same as http://archive.debian.org/debian/, and the latter is what I bookmarked years ago (maybe on the demise of http://archive.debian.net/, who knows). http://archive.debian.org/debian/ has frequently come up in discussions on this list. I find it a much simpler tree to navigate around, as long as you remember one thing: Until the pool was created, everything lay under dists/; nowadays, packages are under pool/, and everything else remains under dists/. I've not checked to see whether there's a top-level-ish link to this tree. Cheers, David.
