Hi,
Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> friends of mine were unaware that http://httpredir.debian.org/ exists and
> pointed out that our official documentation doesn’t mention it.
>
> Specifically, they read https://www.debian.org/mirror/list and then
> proceeded to hand-pick a mirror.
>
> I think it would be beneficial to our users if we added a note like the
> following at the top of the page:
>
> """
> Use http://httpredir.debian.org/ to automatically get the best mirror based
> on your geographic and network location. In case httpredir does not work
> for you, please send a report to mirrors@debian.org and select a mirror
> from the following list for the time being:
> """
>
> What do you think?
Generally, I would consider that a good idea.
On https://www.debian.org/mirror/ we already have such a paragraph,
I would copy that one to ../mirror/list too, if no one objects.
Diff is attached.
Regards
Holger
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