Re: Keeping choose-mirror updated

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2024-08-14 at 22:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> (2024-08-14):
> 
[...]
> > I'd like to suggest that we get in the habit of updating the
> > choose-mirror package more often, in order to provide a more
> > current mirror list to d-i users. Most changes to the package
> > consist of updates to the mirror list, or to translations of the
> > included Debconf templates.
[...]
> I'm not sure which version to start from (current version in stable
> or an initial backport from unstable — unless there's a compelling
> reason for the latter, I'd rather go for the former, having had 0
> looks at all at this point), but it seems to me we could just
> increment the version in stable, independently from what's happening
> (or not) in unstable?

Thanks for the reply.

I've so far prepared and uploaded 2.126 (unstable) and 2.123+deb12u1
(bookworm).

I've also prepared 2.111+deb11u1, but not yet uploaded it as the
debdiff ends up as:

 Mirrors.masterlist | 4444 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 debian/changelog   |    7 
 2 files changed, 1394 insertions(+), 3057 deletions(-)

The diff doesn't obviously look crazy, but it is clear that the current
package in bullseye is from before the masterlist repository served as
an input for the mirror-status system, which then produces the
published version of Mirrors.masterlist. That accounts for a chunk of
the diff, together with 3 years worth of data changes.

Regards,

Adam