Ubuntu mirrors cleaning process

[Vivien GUEANT - LaFibre.info]

I have already created an RT ticket for this request: 
https://rt.ubuntu.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=36015

Here is the answer :

 > Hi Vivien,
 >
 > Thanks for your reports, which is very relevant.
 > The people in charge of this cleaning don't use RT but launchpad bugs.
 > May I ask you to file one instead ?
 > I'd suggest filing the bug against ubuntu itself 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > ---------------------
 > Laurent Sesquès

Vivien

Le 14/04/2021 à 17:16, Thomas Ward a écrit :
>
> Usually, you file these as tickets at rt at ubuntu.com - not via bugs. 
> That's because the Mirrors team processes questions like these as 
> tickets, not bugs.  (As a member of the Ubuntu Bug Control team I'm 
> going to mark your bug as Invalid because it's not something that 
> should be filed in the bug tracker against Ubuntu).
>
> You've mailed the list now, though, so this will eventually get the 
> attention of one of the mirror team people on it.
>
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On 4/14/21 11:04 AM, Vivien GUEANT - LaFibre.info wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't know if this is the correct process, I opened the bug 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1918137 to ask to delete the 
>> many junk files on the mirrors. I don't know how to attribute it to 
>> the cleaning team.
>>
>> The different points :
>>
>> - The i386 package cleaning process seems incomplete: There are still 
>> i386 boot images for Ubuntu 20.10 or Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo: 
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
>>
>> - The i386 architecture is always listed for Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute 
>> Hippo: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/bouygues-telecom
>>
>> - Files in the "indices" folder 
>> (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/indices/) are not cleaned up when a 
>> distribution is deleted from the archive: there are files from Ubuntu 
>> 5.04: Hoary Hedgehog!
>>
>> In order to reduce the environmental footprint of the mirrors which 
>> contains these unnecessary files, which are copied in thousands of 
>> copies, would it be possible to do some cleaning?
>>
>> Is-it necessary to keep in the mirrors Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise 
>> Pangolin? Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance ended since April 2019 
>> and the mirror files have not changed since may 2018: 
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/
>>
>> Would it be possible to move unsupported versions, like Ubuntu 12.04, 
>> to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for a little cleaning, which might avoid 
>> upgrades to the mirror servers (actual size of Ubuntu archives is 1.6 
>> TB).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vivien.
>>