Re: Canadian Mirror

[Mike Mallett <mike@nerdcore.net>]

Ah, my apologies. I thought the non-us was still a valid chunk of packages.

Regardless of that, however, I still think that ftp.ca.debian.org should 
be a Canadian site. Maybe I'm just being too picky, but that makes good 
sense to me. ;)

   --Mike

Joey Hess wrote:
> Mike Mallett wrote:
>   
> > However, this mirror does NOT contain the debian-non-us content, for
> > obvious reasons. Therefore, ftp.ca.debian.org does not contain
> > debian-non-us, which it should.
> >     
>
> This only affects oldstable; stable and all newer releases do not
> include any content in non-us. Given that security support is already
> discontinued for oldstable, and non-us is marked as discontinued as well
> on the mirrors page, this does not seem like an omission worth worrying
> about. 
>
> Also, there's no general rule that ftp.cc.debian.org needs to carry non-us;
> most of them did not even before it was discontinued.
>
>