Drafting announcement for shutting down ftp

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

Hi folks

The mirror team and DSA would like to shutdown the ftp service for all
of our public mirrors somewhere before the end of the year.  We drafted
some announcement, but I have no idea if that would be appropriate and
where we need to announce that.

Please provide some insight.

Regards,
Bastian

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A lot of people have already done it, some will do it in the near future. So let's face it, it is time to terminate a service that we all have learned to love and hate --- our FTP servers.

All FTP servers for public facing debian.org services will be shut down on XXX 1, 2017. These are:

* ftp://ftp.debian.org
* ftp://security.debian.org

Please consider migrating to the following:

    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian          <codename-or-suite>         main ...
    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security <codename-or-suite>/updates main ...

    # tor variant (requires apt-transport-tor)
    # deb  tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/debian          <codename-or-suite>            main ...
    # deb  tor+http://sgvtcaew4bxjd7ln.onion/debian-security <codename-or-suite>/updates    main ...

Internal services will not be affected. These are:

* ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org
* ftp://security-master.debian.org

If you have any concerns about this change, please contact mirrors@debian.org.

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