buster-based images moved to archive.debian.net

[yoe]

Hi,

In order to save time in my ci setup, I install a few things using apt, rather than relying on Alien modules (in my case, Alien::ffmpeg) to download and compile software, which takes significantly longer.

On the images for the oldest perl that I support, 5.28, this has recently stopped working, as the images are based on Debian 11 'buster', which no longer lives on deb.debian.org but instead has moved to archive.debian.net.

While the fix for this is trivial (just s/deb.debian.org/archive.debian.net/ over /etc/apt/sources.list), and I can do that from my CI script, I think it would be better if the docker images were to be updated to use the new URL. This should theoretically be fairly trivially a simple rebuild with no changes to the Dockerfile as the buster images currently should already have the new URL baked in, though I haven't tested this myself.

[waterkip]

Hello,

I don't think we are going to do that for all images that are hosted on Dockerhub. If you look at #161, you'll see that we are already part of the "heavy-hitters" on Dockerhub. Rebuilding all old images is not something we do. See also #188 for a more detailed response.

This means, unfortunately, that for the time being, as we don't have images on GHCR, you would need to change the sources.list files yourself before you can properly use them.

[zakame]

Hello @yoe , I remember you from my old Debian maintainer days 👋 Thanks for the report!

As @waterkip says, we currently only support the Perl releases on current-supported Debian releases (Trixie, Bookworm, and Bullseye.) FWIW, I also checked the current buildpack-deps:buster base and these do not have the archive.debian.net source since these also have been stopped being built/supported by the Docker official-images team since July 2024:

% docker run --rm -it buildpack-deps:buster cat /etc/apt/sources.list
Unable to find image 'buildpack-deps:buster' locally
buster: Pulling from library/buildpack-deps
3892befd2c3f: Pull complete 
32ab8bed435e: Pull complete 
2a567eb2264b: Pull complete 
9be81a73cfb7: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:c9285bcb198c0ae171bfc350a4af94ddfda547c4e4d2900a92c280232319341e
Status: Downloaded newer image for buildpack-deps:buster
# deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240612T000000Z buster main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main
# deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20240612T000000Z buster/updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
# deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240612T000000Z buster-updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main

[tianon]

You might also be interested in the debian/eol images (https://oci.dag.dev/?repo=debian/eol), even if only as a convenient place to copy sources.list contents from (COPY --from=debian/eol:buster-slim /etc/apt/sources.list...).