A new maintainer of mature software like debmirror never knows which line of the existing code, a line that *looks* inelegant or pointless, might actually fix some obscure bug from seven years ago for a guy who (say) uses debmirror over AX.25 in Nepal. One has to be careful about that. For this among other reasons, I do not plan to redesign the software, but to maintain it in its current form. There seems to exist a newer package named "aptly". I do not know much about that, nor even if it conveniently does (or at all does) what debmirror does. Nevertheless, its developer seems enthusiastic enough; so, if you should happen to require an overall redesign, then you might investigate that package.
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