Bug#660784: [www.debian.org] "Setting up a Debian archive mirror": ftp.debian.org is no (longer) in the United States

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Hi Simon,

On 2012-02-21 15:46, Simon Paillard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > According to the "Where to mirror from" section of "Setting up a
> > Debian archive mirror",
> >
> > > |ftp.debian.org| is merely one of several servers that get updated
> > >from an internal Debian server. That address is presently located
> > > on a single server in the United States, and it still exists
> > > mainly for backwards compatibility.
> Do you know that, for such trivial change:
> - you could avoid the overhead of BTS ?

Hum, overhead when compared to what?
> - send a patch against cvs ?

I do know that I could send a patch ...but I also know that wouldn't be 
very efficient for trivial problems of this kind.
> - you could ask a alioth account and just fix the webpage yourself ?
>    http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_cvs

I already have the account chealer-guest on Alioth, but I don't suppose 
I have write access to the repository.
> Reference for 'United States' removed from the page.

Thank you!