On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:03:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:15:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > our mirror > > operators have an obligation to carry whatever we want to have them > > carry; > non-free is one of the easiest things for mirror operators to drop, > if they want. All they need to exclude (essentially) is pool/non-free > from the mirror scripts. (pool/non-US/non-free if they mirror non-US, > dists/*/non-free, if they want to be thorough and not have confused users) Do we require mirrors in certain positions (i.e., ftp.us.debian.org et al.) to carry the full archive? I assumed this was the case; if it is, then at least in some circumstances, we're "imposing" non-free on our mirror operators. Not that this was anything other than argumentum ad absurdum... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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