deprecation of buildinfo.debian.net (NOT buildinfos.debian.net)

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Holger,

> since a year or two I've been thinking we should deprecate
> https://buildinfo.debian.net where "deprecate" probably means shutdown,
> because it's a constant cause of confusion and thus waste time, while
> I believe https://buildinfo.debian.net serves no real purpose anymore.
> It has been useful in the past, but I believe there's no real usecase
> left anymore, while it does cause confusion to someone every 3-6 months.

As the sysadmin of this service, I'd be happy with this.

> Thus I'd propose to: […]

The only things I'd add to your list of actions is that we'd
eventually make buildinfo.d.n redirect to buildinfos.d.n.

Before everything, though, we might simply disable the virtual machine
and replace it with a static HTML page along the lines of, "We plan to
shut this down, so if this has broken something, please let us know."
Just in case.

Ah, one last question: should we archive all the data somewhere? It's
essentially an enormous PostgreSQL database.


Regards,

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