• Describe the issue

Compare

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/34/Everything/

to

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/35/Everything/

The former has a SRPMS directory, which I think is actually a symlink to source/tree; the latter does not.

This shouldn't matter normally, because it looks like mirrormanager points directly to source/tree. But, the example baseurl in fedora-updates.repo points to SRPMS (even with a clearly spurious download.example hostname), so it seems likely that people might have that configuration. I'm pretty sure that's what's going on here: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-35-where-are-srpms-dnf-builddep/18167?u=mattdm

So, probably:

1. We should create that symlink, because, hey, symlinks are cheap
2. We should update the repo file going forward to point to source/tree

3. I guess maybe some of this is documented somewhere and we should update that documentation to match reality and/or update reality to match the documentation

4. When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD)

Not urgent?

• When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD)

Probably indefinitely. We could phase out the SRPMS symlink eventually I guess?

• If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?

I suppose: Minor annoyance for people who have manual configuration for the source package URL but haven't updated it to point to the new location and aren't shown an obvious reason for the failure.