On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Looks like this comes from osinfo-db: > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1 > Does this need to be updated for every point release? > > debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to > specify a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption > (gnome-boxes is a virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct > link to the .iso, not a web page with human-readable text, but HTTP > redirects would probably be OK. > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked > promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.
Yes, please. In late 2023, Ubuntu added a (hidden) symlink or redirect like this for their LTS releases: https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/ubuntu-24.04-latest-desktop-amd64.iso Debian 12 never got an update of osinfo-db because it wasn't possible for a Debian 12 point release to include the download URL for the new Debian 12 point release unless we predicted what the next version would be and then updated osinfo-db for every single Debian point release. Even then, that wouldn't help people using other distros who wanted to try Debian using the useful Download an OS feature in the GNOME Boxes app since the download URL would probably be out of date and wouldn't work. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
