I've extended the format of the the Mirrors.masterlist file, which is used to record available Debian mirrors, to include machine-readable information about what architectures are included in a mirror. This information will be used by the Debian installer and other programs to select an appropriate mirror for a user's architecture. I'm ccing this to the debian-mirrors list because I suspect that a lot of our information about which mirrors are mirroring which architectures is out of date. The information about which architectures is available is now included in the list of mirrors at <http://www.nl.debian.org/mirrors/list>, so please check that the information for your mirror is accurate, and if not, please let us know. If you change the architectures included in your mirror in the future, we'd appreciate a mail mentioning this so we can keep the information up-to-date. Also, note that I have added the amd64 Mirrors.list file onto Mirrors.masterlist, but at least for now the amd64 information is filtered out of the mirror list page on the official Debian website. If it's decided that should be included there already, it's very easy to remove the filter. The amd64 people may want to switch over to using Mirrors.masterlist directly, or should at least keep us current as they continue adding mirrors. -- see shy jo
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