I've checked in Stretch and it is working fine. I've seen that the Debian.mirrors list is generated with the file utils/get_debian_mirrors.py, that is called by pre-build.sh. The bug is still present in LMDE, but the version there is quite old (0.9). I'm closing the bug with a wontfix. Thank you!
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