> For each new release, it seems that the tarball is published in the
> "/source" directory (website) while the previous one is moved to
> "/source/old/<series>".
>
> Would it be possible that all releases land in "/source/old",
> including the new one when published? After all anything is more or
> less old, as soon as it's born ;)
Normally, you should be able to access older releases without changing the URL,
(even after they were moved) because there is an URL rewrite rule which handles
this.
For an example, 1.1.1a is available at the same location as 1.1.1g:
~/tmp$ curl -JOL https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1g.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload
Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 9571k 100 9571k 0 0 1992k 0 0:00:04 0:00:04
--:--:-- 1992k
~/tmp$ curl -JOL https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1a.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload
Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 8154k 100 8154k 0 0 4962k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01
--:--:-- 4960k
Concidentally, a few days ago the rewrite rule was broken, but that has been
fixed.
(see https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11521#issuecomment-612483438 and
ff.)
HTH,
Matthias
