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Re: Removal of buster-backports from the debian archive.



Hi, 

> There is something that I don't understand. How are we supposed to
> follow this move from mirrors to archive.debian.org then if there is no
> fixed date when BPO will be removed form mirrors?
> 
> Will bullseye-backports be available from August 15th in the
> archive.debian.org mirror?
> 
> A bit of context:
> The recent removal of buster-backports broke our CI [1], we fixed it by
> redeploying Debian Buster images with the correct sources.list (our VMs
> are based on cloud-init images [2] that still contain the wrong
> sources.list as of today BTW).
> 
> Can you point me to the right direction/documentation or how you would
> handle this?
There isn't a fixed date when the removal happens, that task is done by a different team. However you should in 
general not use unsupported repos at all. Thereofore I would suggest that you stop using backports after August 15th. 

Alex

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