Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

[Martin Bagge / brother <brother@bsnet.se>]

Andreas Tille wrote:
>    http://ftp.debian.org/
>
> says:
>
>    This FTP server belongs to Academic Computer Club, Umeå University. 
> Technical information is available here.

because that's true. ACC is the sponsor of ftp.debian.org.
on the other hand ftp.d.o is not a good place to get accurate status of 
the files at mirrors because it is deprecated since 2001.
See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2008/09/msg00015.html

> Moreover I noticed that the translation files I obtained from
>
>    http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/
>
> are not available as gz any more but only as bz2.
>
> Did anything changed that should have been announced?

It might.
see this thread:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2009-February/000408.html

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Martin Bagge / brother
Swedish l10n
Mirror admin debian.bsnet.se