Re: deb.debian.org vs security.debian.org

[Gian Piero Carrubba <gpiero@rm-rf.it>]

* [Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:25:00AM -0500] Daniel Lewart:
> Is there a preferred sources.list URI for the Debian security
> repository between:
>  * http://deb.debian.org/debian-security
>  * http://security.debian.org/debian-security
>
> I asked in debian-devel and received two replies:
>  * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/08/msg00166.html
>  * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/08/msg00167.html
>  * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/08/msg00172.html
> but no consensus.

AFAIK, what Peter said ("the security updates repository is 
intentionally not supposed to be mirrored") was true for a long time, 
but isn't since a while. I guess the bandwidth requirements became too 
onerous. As pabs said, currently "both of these URLs point at the Fastly 
CDN, so they are equivalent". Just pick one.

Ciao,
Gian Piero.