Bug#652125: O: mirror -- keeps FTP archives up-to-date

[Ian Maclaine-cross <ianmaclain@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the mirror package.

Mirror is written in Perl and is intended for use by ftp and web
masters but is obsolete and has no active upstream maintainer.

The package description is:
 Mirror uses the FTP protocol to locally duplicate remote host files and
 directories selected with Perl regular expressions.  By default transfers
 only files missing locally or whose remote sizes or time-stamps have changed.
 Can reduce directory download using compressed listings in ls-lR.gz files
 or further using compressed differences of daily listings in ls-lR.patch.gz
 files.  Can read mirrored Packages.gz files and mirror just their specified
 fraction of Debian from pool/.  Amongst many flexible options it can gzip
 and split files.  Tracks large distant FTP archives accurately with low
 download volume.
 .
 Simpler programs like "mirrordir", "rsync" or "wget" use less memory and may
 copy directory trees faster between local machines.