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Re: Suggestion: add note about httpredir to debian.org/mirror/list



Great, thank you!

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
Hi,

Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > friends of mine were unaware that http://httpredir.debian.org/ exists and
> > pointed out that our official documentation doesn’t mention it.
> >
> > Specifically, they read https://www.debian.org/mirror/list and then
> > proceeded to hand-pick a mirror.
> >
> > I think it would be beneficial to our users if we added a note like the
> > following at the top of the page:
> >
> > """
> > Use http://httpredir.debian.org/ to automatically get the best mirror based
> > on your geographic and network location. In case httpredir does not work
> > for you, please send a report to mirrors@debian.org and select a mirror
> > from the following list for the time being:
> > """
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Generally, I would consider that a good idea.
> On https://www.debian.org/mirror/ we already have such a paragraph,
> I would copy that one to ../mirror/list too, if no one objects.

Done. Should be online within the next hours.


Holger


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