Re: ITP: apt-sources
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:33:17PM +0000, Stephen Stafford wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> I intend to package (just as soon as I can get out of the NM queue)
> apt-sources, a small but nice package which downloads from debian.org the
> list of debain mirrors, parses this list, pings and tests bandwisth from each
> server and writes a /etc/apt/sources.list based on the results.
> I have been in contact with upstream (in this case the package is primarily
> for Debian use, but as he is having problems with key signing I am going to
> package this for now.)
> I have built a .deb which is lintian clean, and written a small and fairly
> simple manpage.
> I am currently short on webspace, so I have uploaded to yahoogeocities
> (where I have had to name the file with a .gz extension to have it
> accepted...to stay within the spirit of these rules I actually have gzipped
> the file). You can find the file at:
> http://www.geocities.com/sms_ie/apt-sources_2.0-1_i386.deb.gz
>
> any comments can be directed at me <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk>
Wouldn't it be better called apt-servers? The name confused me at first
glance, and I suspect the same will occur for others aswell.
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