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Comments on new archive setup



There have been some discussion about a new setup for the archive to
better represent import & export problems. I want to make a few remarks
which I think people should consider:

* I think we should always have a `main archive' that can be mirrored
  everywhere without having to play weird tricks with mirror. We should
  put a mirror configuration somewhere to show people how to do this.
* This main archive *should not have unmet dependencies*. 
* We should look at the reason why packages can't be exported from a country
  instead of which country does or doesn't allow it. Laws can change,
  and such changes should easily be reflected in our achive setup.
* If we decide to make a debian-restricted archive we will have to make a
  nice & easy to setup tool for mirrors to use to setup mirror or rsync,
  otherwise we will loose mirrors since mirroring will become way to
  complex.
* Please discuss this on only one mailinglist. I suggest debian-policy
  first to work out what we really want, and perhaps move to debian-devel
  later when things get to technical issues. I've set the reply-to
  accordingly.

Wichert.

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