Hi, On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:09:02 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > we currently carry Debian mirror URLs in many different packages. It > would be great if there could be one package that shipped a machine > readable list of the currently correct mirror URLs for each distro. > > This is useful, because we have already gone through many iterations of > mirror URLs like http.debian.net, httpredir.debian.org, deb.debian.org. > Now with bullseye we switched the security mirror from stable/updates to > stable-security. And currently on debian-devel there is a discussion > about http versus https as a default for the mirrors. > > If we shipped the information in one central package like > distro-info-data, then whenever we change it, we'd only need to change > this package and not all the many packages that require this > information.
Which packages are currently shipping that information? I agree that it would be good to have this information in a central place. But the scope is more complex if we count in Ubuntu. Ubuntu has http://ports.ubuntu.com/ for non-x86 architectures. Ubuntu also does not have an equivalent to deb.debian.org - so consumers might need to have a list of mirrors to select from. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
