Bug#989473: choose-mirror: switch mirror list from salsa to mirror-master
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote (Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:39:44 +0200):
> Filing this on behalf of Peter Palfrader who suggested we switched from
> the manually curated mirror list hosted on salsa[1] to I suppose a live
> one published on mirror-master[2], that would be more representative of
> the current state of mirrors when release time approaches.
>
> 1. https://salsa.debian.org/mirror-team/masterlist/raw/master/Mirrors.masterlist
> 2. https://mirror-master.debian.org/status/Mirrors.masterlist
Hmm, what exactly is the benefit?
Sourcing a file from a git repo on Salsa seems reasonable to me, given that
we have revision tracking there, which would be a good basis for debugging
d-i's mirror list in case of problems or questions...
> Having attempted that, I'm not comfortable updating choose-mirror with
> this change right now, as that would mean shuffling all entries.
>
> A quick brainstorming on IRC resulted in what appeared to be a good idea
> to everyone involved: the list might be random, but let's make sure we
> show deb.d.o at the top (default entry anyway), followed by ftp.CC.d.o
> (if there's such an entry for the given country).
>
> Happy to take opinions, and possibly patches for that. :)
Having deb.debian.org at the top would be an improvement, as well as having
ftp.CC.d.o next to it.
However, the difference is only marginal IMHO ...
Holger
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