Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.141 Severity: normal Hi. Today this happens:
$ sudo debootstrap focal tst/ I: Target architecture can be executed I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-removed-keys.gpg; switching to https mirror https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu I: Retrieving InRelease I: Retrieving Release E: Failed getting release file https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/Release This is due to ubuntu doing something weird, but still it would be nice if it worked. The problem is that focal is Ubuntu 20.04, which is very old. debootstrap checks to see if this distro is "supported"; it decides that it isn't supported, and thus it uses the old-releases.u.c url. This is apparently wrong. The logic is in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/focal, which is a symlink to /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/gutsy. The relevant logic in that file is: if command -v ubuntu-distro-info >/dev/null 2>&1; then if ubuntu-distro-info --supported | grep -q "$SUITE" >/dev/null 2>&1; then supported=true else supported=false fi elif command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 && command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1; then supported="$(curl -s https://endoflife.date/api/ubuntu.json | jq --arg suite $SUITE '[.[] | select((.extendedSupport // .support) > (now | strftime("%Y-%m-%d")) and (.codename | test($suite; "i")))] | isempty(.[]) | not')" elif command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1 && command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1; then supported="$(wget -qO- https://endoflife.date/api/ubuntu.json | jq --arg suite $SUITE '[.[] | select((.extendedSupport // .support) > (now | strftime("%Y-%m-%d")) and (.codename | test($suite; "i")))] | isempty(.[]) | not')" else supported=true fi if [ "$supported" = true ]; then case "$ARCH" in amd64|i386) default_mirror http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ;; *) default_mirror http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports ;; esac keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg else default_mirror http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-removed-keys.gpg fi So there are several "supported" checks. The very first one is triggered on my box. I get: $ ubuntu-distro-info --supported jammy noble Note that "focal" is not on the "supported" list. OK. So since ultimately we want to figure out which server we should use, how about we ask the server what exists and what doesn't. I replaced that whole block above with: if curl -sf http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/$SUITE/main/binary-$ARCH > /dev/null; then default_mirror http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg elif curl -sf http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/$SUITE/main/binary-$ARCH > /dev/null; then default_mirror http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg elif curl -sf http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/$SUITE/main/binary-$ARCH > /dev/null; then default_mirror http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-removed-keys.gpg else error 1 SOMETHING "No ubuntu mirror for suite $SUITE, arch $ARCH" fi And it works for focal for both amd64 and arm64. Probably worrks for more than just focal too. Should we make this change? Note that I don't know how to report the error, so "SOMETHING" above should be replaced. Thanks!
