python/pythondotorg

Lots of 404s on docs archives

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n8henrie commented

Noticed while trying to download an offline copy of 3.6.2 HTML docs at https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-html.zip

$ curl -s https://docs.python.org/3/download.html | grep -o '"archives/.*"' | xargs -I{} bash -c 'echo; url="https://docs.python.org/3/{}"; echo "${url}"; c
url -s -I "${url}" | head -n 1'

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-pdf-letter.zip
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-pdf-letter.tar.bz2
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-pdf-a4.zip
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-pdf-a4.tar.bz2
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-html.zip
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-html.tar.bz2
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-text.zip
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-text.tar.bz2
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.6.2-docs.epub
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
berkerpeksag commented

Thank you for the report. Issues with docs.python.org are out of scope for this tracker. These files are uploaded by Python release managers so it should be reported to https://bugs.python.org/.

n8henrie commented

Gotcha, I was following Submit Website Bug from the footer of https://www.python.org/about/help/. Will submit there.

ned-deily commented

After looking into this a bit, the failing URLs are ones associated with the daily docs build job on docs, not those uploaded by the releases managers for a release. As best I can tell, that part of the docs build has been broken for some time, probably because the docs build was updated to use newer TexLive features, newer than the 2013.20140215-1 version in Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS on the docs server. I'm not sure what the best approach is. I discussed this with @benjaminp last week and we thought maybe just trying to find and install a backport of a more current TexLive would be easiest.

berkerpeksag commented

@ned-deily why did you reopen it? This issue doesn't have anything to do with www.python.org. It should be discussed either in python/psf-salt or python/docsbuild-scripts.

ned-deily commented

@berkerpeksag You're right, psf-salt would be a better place to track this. I've opened python/psf-salt#118.

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n8henrie commented

For future readers (since several similar issues have been created since this one):

Active issue is here.

As noted here, the release version is still available for download:

ned-deily commented

And for further future reference, the problem was resolved by some needed updates to Doc/conf.py; see https://bugs.python.org/issue31423.