Dear Maintainer,
When choosing "Debian 12 x86_64"
in create "Download an OS" (the plus dropdown) I get this error:
Échec du téléchargement de "debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso" : Not
Found"
ie likely "Failure to download ... debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso : Not Found"

After a short search, I did not find the file where this iso location is defined.

Cheers,
Alban

Control: reassign -1 osinfo-db
Control: affects -1 + gnome-boxes
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1
Does this need to be updated for every point release?

debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to
specify a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption
(gnome-boxes is a virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct
link to the .iso, not a web page with human-readable text, but HTTP
redirects would probably be OK.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked
promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.

Thanks,
     smcv

Yes, please. In late 2023, Ubuntu added a (hidden) symlink or redirect
like this for their LTS releases:
https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/ubuntu-24.04-latest-desktop-amd64.iso

Debian 12 never got an update of osinfo-db because it wasn't possible
for a Debian 12 point release to include the download URL for the new
Debian 12 point release unless we predicted what the next version
would be and then updated osinfo-db for every single Debian point
release. Even then, that wouldn't help people using other distros who
wanted to try Debian using the useful Download an OS feature in the
GNOME Boxes app since the download URL would probably be out of date
and wouldn't work.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Hi,

I've updated the link upstream for 12.10 and added support for the live
images as well, see #1094350.
However, we already released 12.11, so even that update is obsoleted.

The request to have a URI without version numbers (or with at most the
major version number) is already in #813797 (from 2016!)

I also think it would be nice to have a stable URI for each major version.

What we would need is another release of osinfo-db for trixie, even
though the release schedule for osinfo-db is not matching the Debian
release schedule.

I would expect that the release team will allow for an unblock, since
this would enable a good user experience on trixie with (at least GNOME
Boxes).

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

Hey Simon,

I'll see what we can do...