Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:34:50AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Listing http:// links when only ftp:// ones are verified. > > > > Well as I see it, we have three choices: > > > > 1. Leave things as they are, with dozens of known to be broken ftp and > > http links. > > 2. At least make sure all the ftp links are valid, and eliminate many of > > the probably broken http links, which my script already dones. > > 3. Someone who likes to grovel around in html do even more work. > > You left out: > > 4. Get someone to send email to mirror maintainers of the sites that still > have 2.2 explaining to them where to get up to date images (e.g. with a few > example sites listed if they want to slurp them off someplace else, and as > an added bonus, explain how to use jigdo-file and jigdo-mirror). Sure, feel free to do that.. And do it again every release. > > I don't really see the benefit of holding off on 2 in hope that someone > > will eventually do 3; they're more liable to do so if the program is > > already in place and working for ftp. And I certianly don't see the > > benefit of leaving things in the unusable state they are when a much > > improved though admittedly not perfect list is already available. > > I say if we're going to bother with it at all, let's fix the mirrors instead > of just fixing the list; having the list broken for a little more time is > acceptable if the end result is going to be having the majority of them > fixed, and the bad ones pruned. Why do you think that not pruning dead mirrors from the list is going to make the maintainers of those mirrors more liable to fix them. -- see shy jo
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