Control: tag -1 wontfix Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> (2015-08-30): > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:05:07PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > This article [0] had some extensive complaints about Debian, one of > > which is that the installer has too many screens (apparently 20 in > > their case). > > > > Setting a default mirror without user intervention would nicely save 3 > > of those steps, and httpredir.debian.org is in many ways the ideal > > mirror selection anyway. > > I have seen issues with this. It might be good for the general case of > apt where you see what the failure is and can retry if needed. But in > the US it caused me some aborted installations because there was some > mirror in the rotation that was broken. debian-installer - I guess in > this case debootstrap - does not retry a broken file. (apt also doesn't > do that but it's harder to figure out in d-i what's going on.) Yeah. I'm not convinced switching is sensible, and even if it were, now seems way premature. Tagging wontfix for now. Mraw, KiBi.
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