Unsupported apt repositories just went away! (5.5-10.1)

Overnight, the longstanding apt repositories for the unsupported MariaDB server versions lost their directories in the apt repositories.

For example on ftp.osuosl.org we see only the supported versions:

ncftp /pub/mariadb/repo > dir

lrwxrwxrwx    1 4035     4035           23 Jul  8 16:15 10.2 -> ../mariadb-10.2.39/repo

lrwxrwxrwx    1 4035     4035           23 Jul  8 16:15 10.3 -> ../mariadb-10.3.30/repo

lrwxrwxrwx    1 4035     4035           23 Jul  8 16:15 10.4 -> ../mariadb-10.4.20/repo

lrwxrwxrwx    1 4035     4035           23 Jul  8 16:16 10.5 -> ../mariadb-10.5.11/repo

lrwxrwxrwx    1 4035     4035           22 Jul  8 16:16 10.6 -> ../mariadb-10.6.3/repo

These were working until yesterday or day before, and have such a long and wonderful history. People still need them!

The tool I maintain, ddev, https://github.com/drud/ddev, allows developers to launch a web project with a variety of configurations, including old and unsupported versions. It's docker-based, but as soon as you need to install something you're now hosed because of the missing repo.