<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I also think that experiment is over, if anything because it turns out that our original concept never really took flight.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm always a big fan of "eternal archival", so I'd say to keep it somewhere, possibly tougher with the original code of the service and a bit of accompanying text. Just how big would a plain SQL dump (not the postgres custom, just to improve on possible interoperability) be?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, 3:33 pm Chris Lamb, <<a href="mailto:chris@reproducible-builds.org">chris@reproducible-builds.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Holger,<br>
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> since a year or two I've been thinking we should deprecate<br>
> <a href="https://buildinfo.debian.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://buildinfo.debian.net</a> where "deprecate" probably means shutdown,<br>
> because it's a constant cause of confusion and thus waste time, while<br>
> I believe <a href="https://buildinfo.debian.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://buildinfo.debian.net</a> serves no real purpose anymore.<br>
> It has been useful in the past, but I believe there's no real usecase<br>
> left anymore, while it does cause confusion to someone every 3-6 months.<br>
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As the sysadmin of this service, I'd be happy with this.<br>
<br>
> Thus I'd propose to: […]<br>
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The only things I'd add to your list of actions is that we'd<br>
eventually make buildinfo.d.n redirect to buildinfos.d.n.<br>
<br>
Before everything, though, we might simply disable the virtual machine<br>
and replace it with a static HTML page along the lines of, "We plan to<br>
shut this down, so if this has broken something, please let us know."<br>
Just in case.<br>
<br>
Ah, one last question: should we archive all the data somewhere? It's<br>
essentially an enormous PostgreSQL database.<br>
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