Shutting down public FTP services

April 25th, 2017

After many years of serving the needs of our users, and some more of declining usage in favor of better options, all public-facing debian.org FTP services will be shut down on November 1, 2017. These are:

This decision is driven by the following considerations:

Information for users

The DNS names ftp.debian.org and ftp.<CC>.debian.org will remain the same. The mirrors should just be accessed using HTTP instead:

Information for developers

Our developer services will not be affected. These are the upload queues for both the main and the security archive:

About Debian

The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating system Debian.

Contact Information

For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at https://www.debian.org/, send mail to <press@debian.org>, or contact the mirror team at their public mailing list <debian-mirrors@lists.debian.org>.