> These mirrors (?) don't seem to have all the packages present in the
> armel-debs.applieddata.net
> repository. Things like tzdata and dpkg-dev to name a few.
Right, it's a partial repository, architecture independent packages are
not included. You can pull them from the official mirrors using something
like:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/