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This is the Debian project ftp-master server. Various informational
pages are available here.
Additional information is also available on
FTPMaster wiki
page
Archive signing key
Information on the archive signing keys is available
here
'dak'
dak (Debian Archive Kit) is the collection of scripts that have replaced dinstall and friends.
The source is available from
Documentation is available for
dak in general
and the
public HTTP API
A developer-accessible read-only copy is available on
mirror.ftp-master.debian.org
(accessible via
SSH).
Log files can be found in
/srv/ftp-master.debian.org/log
Uploads are first processed by debianqueued which also manages the
deferred upload
queue
The
source of
debianqueued
is part of dak;
log files can be found in
/srv/upload.debian.org/queued/run/log
on
ssh.upload.debian.org
dinstall
The dinstall portion of dak is run at the following times:
01:52 UTC
07:52 UTC
13:52 UTC
19:52 UTC
The status of the dinstall run can be checked by looking at
There are currently 6 states it reports:
Startup
Here we save a timestamp of our
database (so we could go back using the WAL archiving), update
various external resources like the i18n/ structure, move NEW
accepted packages around and process new packages for
proposed-updates.
Indices
During that part we generate
various files you can find in indices/ and prepare everything
for the next state.
packages/contents
Here we write out our
Packages/Sources and Contents files.
dists/
Directly after the packages
files. Everything thats needed to finish the dists/
directory, like creating the (much hated) pdiff files
as well as the release files. We also cleanup various things.
scripts
We run various small
actions in here, including the final preparation for the
mirror tree, making all the changes visible to the
world.
postlock
From here on a lot of
actions run in parallel. Basically general cleanup and
householding actions that do not modify the visible
archive.
all done
Who would have thought, we
are all done.
New Packages
New Packages uploaded to the archive, but not yet accepted,
can be
seen here
You can also look at the
RFC822 version
Packages uploaded and accepted, but not yet installed into the pool
locations are to be found
here
until the
dinstall cron run
moves them into the pool.
RSS feeds are available for packages
entering NEW
and
leaving NEW
A separate page exists for the
NEW queue for Debian Backports
Deferred Packages
Deferred Packages which were uploaded to a DELAYED queue and have not
reached their specified delay can be
seen here
You can also look at the
machine readable version
Statistics
There are graphs about
various
ftp-master queues
available.
Pending removals
Packages which are scheduled to be removed from Debian
are
shown here
and also on the
ftp bug page
Removed packages
To find what packages (and why) have been removed you
can view the
log of removals
This log contains the entries for this year only, to view
older removal log entries follow one of the following links.
You can also look at the
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2001
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2002
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2003
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2004
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2005
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2006
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2007
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2008
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2009
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2010
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2011
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2012
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2013
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2014
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2015
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2016
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2017
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2018
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2019
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2020
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2021
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2022
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2023
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2024
RFC822 version
log of removals for 2025
RFC822 version
Additionally we provide a
full
log of all removals
, in case you need to search in more
than one year. Be careful, this file is huge (more than
31MB at the time of writing this). You can also look at the
RFC822 version
Again, this file is huge (more than 23MB at the time of
writing this).
If you want you can also follow removals via
the RSS
feed
provided.
Cruft Report
Some packages which needs to be removed manually are found in
the cruft-report
Testing
Trixie is testing, sid is unstable. For more details please look
at the
testing
pages.
Stable / Oldstable
Packages uploaded to proposed-updates which have not yet been accepted by
the stable release managers can be seen
here.
Packages uploaded to oldstable-proposed-updates can be seen
here.
Deciphering rejections
If your package has been rejected and you don't understand why,
check the
explanations
of the
sometimes cryptic rejection messages.
Debian Maintainers
The list of Debian Maintainer permissions
is
available as an RFC822
file
. To operate changes, please
follow
the
relevant instructions
, or see
dcut dm
in
the
dput-ng
package.
Archive Criteria
Criteria
for inclusion in the archive
of new architectures.
Valid-Until and archived releases
Since wheezy the archive metadata has a field named
Valid-Until
This field limits how long the metadata of the archive is
considered valid. It is simply a date and time, usually in
the future. This is automatically updated and renewed
whenever the relevant part of the archive receives an
update.
When we archive a release and its associated suites, we are
NOT
removing
this field from the metadata when it is there. That means
that anyone who continues to use this archive from the
archive of old releases
will
see apt refusing to use the release, due to it being expired.
This is
NOT
a bug, and we are
NOT
changing this.
If you really need to continue using an
unsupported
release,
you can tell apt to ignore the expiry with the option
-o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false
apt in stretch and later can ignore this per entry in
sources.list, use a format like the following:
deb [check-valid-until=no] http://YOURMIRROR/... yoursuite main
PHP License
Statement
on the applicability of
the PHP license for packages in Debian.
Talks
DebConf 2011
, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
DebConf 2009
, Cáceres, Spain.
Patches
Patches for this website are welcome, please clone using:
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/website.git
Contact
Email contact: ftpmaster@debian.org
Request tracker:
(pseudo package)
Public IRC channel: #debian-ftp on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
Web site source code is
available
Debian FTP team