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

[Mattia Rizzolo]

I also think that experiment is over, if anything because it turns out that
our original concept never really took flight.

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?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, 3:33 pm Chris Lamb, <chris at reproducible-builds.org>
wrote:

> 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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