On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 03:42, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote: > > Hello release team, > > In the course of recent refactorings of ubuntu-cdimage / debian-cd we somehow > broke the building of source ISOs. I doubt this is anything very deep and can > surely be fixed but there is another option: stop building source ISOs. > > AFAIU the point of a source ISO is GPL-compliance: if you are hosting an ISO > made out of GPL-licensed components you should really also host the source of > those components. However, we put source ISOs on cdimage (e.g. > https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/source/20231011.1/source/) not releases, so > everyone (?) who mirrors the ubuntu ISOs for us does not mirror the source > ISOs. > > As our mirror operators have been working this way for approximately 20 years > without issue, perhaps it's time to stop making source ISOs and delete even > more code from debian-cd and ubuntu-cdimage. > > WDYAT?
I thought these are generated as a point in time snapshot; because we otherwise had no other point in time snapshots available. And hence we archived these with binary isos to old-releases.ubuntu.com especially after things are removed from launchpad and primary mirrors. And then old-releases.ubuntu.com actually has co-located binaries and sources, with matching things. Given we now have https://snapshot.ubuntu.com/ service, will that continue to be running for releases that transition to EOL? and or migrate to old-releases? Because, imho https://snapshot.ubuntu.com is a much better interface to access matching binaries and sources, at any point in time, for any release today, and in the past and in the future. -- Dimitri Sent from Ubuntu Pro https://ubuntu.com/pro -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
