Bug#1050815: snapshot.d.o has been in a bad state for several months

[Holger Levsen]

package: snapshot.debian.org
severity: important
x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel at lists.debian.org, reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

filing this as a bug report, again, because the problem has become worse
than when #1031628 was filed and since snapshot.d.o is part of the central 
services Debian provides and it should work better than it does right now.
else, why do we operate it? ;)

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 01:33:11PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> snapshot.debian.org is getting worse again. There is not a single snapshot for
> August yet and the last days of July are spotty:
> 
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/?year=2023&month=7
> 
> None for the 29. and only a single timestamp for the 26., 27., 28. and 30.
> There should be four per day. The situation is even worse for other archives.
> For debian-ports, for the month of July, there are only 22 snapshots overall:
> 
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/?year=2023&month=7
> 
> This problem has been known for half a year already:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031628
> 
> But that bug got closed in favor of #1029744 which was filed because
> debian-ports had no snapshots at all for January and only three for February
> this year but there is no reply to that bug.
> 
> In #1031628 Julien said that there is "not much we can do about it at the
> moment".
> 
> What is the status of this problem? What is needed to fix it? Is this just a
> problem of computational and/or storage resources which an be fixed by the
> funds available to Debian?
> 
> I'd argue that snapshot.d.o is part of the central services Debian provides and
> it should work better than it does right now.

On https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/?year=2023&month=8 I count
31 snapshot for those 29 days of August so far, with no snapshots so far for
2023-08-01, 2023-08-08, 2023-08-17 and 2023-08-29.

But it get's worse:

On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 11:34:56AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> BTW, it also looks like not only are some snapshots not being taken,
> some of the snapshots are missing packages.   For example:
> 
>    https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20230806T091912Z/
> 
> is missing the package libc-dev-bin, and:
> 
>    https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20230807T150823Z/
> 
> is missing the package dbus.  Which is something that I'm finding when
> I try building an kvm-xfstests VM using:
> 
>     https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/test-appliance/gen-image
> 
> Ah, well, I guess I'll try the snapshot for 20230805T151946Z next....


Please don't just close this bug report as it was done with #1031628,
it's useful to be able to track this, point out that this problem
has been existed since some time and have a place to discussion
workarounds.

Also, how can one start helping with this issue (or others)? where does 
the snapshot team communicate?

https://salsa.debian.org/snapshot-team/snapshot/-/commits/master has
not seen any commit since 7 months.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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Alles weird gut.
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