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Bug#1005741: marked as done (choose-mirror: allow choosing mirror of security archive)

Your message dated Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:21:07 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#1005741: choose-mirror: allow choosing mirror of security archive
has caused the Debian Bug report #1005741,
regarding choose-mirror: allow choosing mirror of security archive
to be marked as done.

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Source: choose-mirror
Version: 2.111
Severity: wishlist

Dear developers,

Debian Installer connects to security.debian.org to download security
updates during installation by default. Connection to security.debian.org is
very slow from where I live (mainland China), and the download takes
about two hours unless I choose expert install and disable security
updates.

I understand using security.debian.org directly in sources.list by
default has its advantages, but I think new users will be frustrated at
this because the default installer iso on the Debian website is netinst,
and (if I recall correctly) the slow download will take place even if
you use a DVD iso with default priority and a machine connected to the
Internet. So perhaps we can prompt the user with the pros and cons of
using security.debian.org and let the user choose from a list of
security archive mirrors before downloading packages.

Best regards,
Wenbin Lv

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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--- Begin Message --- 
Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 05:57:23PM +0800, Wenbin Lv wrote:
> Debian Installer connects to security.debian.org to download security
> updates during installation by default. Connection to security.debian.org is
> very slow from where I live (mainland China), and the download takes
> about two hours unless I choose expert install and disable security
> updates.
> 
> I understand using security.debian.org directly in sources.list by
> default has its advantages, but I think new users will be frustrated at
> this because the default installer iso on the Debian website is netinst,
> and (if I recall correctly) the slow download will take place even if
> you use a DVD iso with default priority and a machine connected to the
> Internet. So perhaps we can prompt the user with the pros and cons of
> using security.debian.org and let the user choose from a list of
> security archive mirrors before downloading packages.
> 
Sorry, I'm afraid I don't think this is a good idea.  Expert install and
disabling security updates seems like a decent workaround for users that
are OK with that tradeoff.

Cheers,
Julien

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