Hi, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote (Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:39:44 +0200): > Filing this on behalf of Peter Palfrader who suggested we switched from > the manually curated mirror list hosted on salsa[1] to I suppose a live > one published on mirror-master[2], that would be more representative of > the current state of mirrors when release time approaches. > > 1. > https://salsa.debian.org/mirror-team/masterlist/raw/master/Mirrors.masterlist > 2. https://mirror-master.debian.org/status/Mirrors.masterlist
Hmm, what exactly is the benefit? Sourcing a file from a git repo on Salsa seems reasonable to me, given that we have revision tracking there, which would be a good basis for debugging d-i's mirror list in case of problems or questions... > Having attempted that, I'm not comfortable updating choose-mirror with > this change right now, as that would mean shuffling all entries. > > A quick brainstorming on IRC resulted in what appeared to be a good idea > to everyone involved: the list might be random, but let's make sure we > show deb.d.o at the top (default entry anyway), followed by ftp.CC.d.o > (if there's such an entry for the given country). > > Happy to take opinions, and possibly patches for that. :) Having deb.debian.org at the top would be an improvement, as well as having ftp.CC.d.o next to it. However, the difference is only marginal IMHO ... Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
