On Monday 14 March 2005 18:11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Speaking of the mirror network is a red-herring. Mirrors are not > > forced to distribute every arch; they can and should eliminate archs > > they aren't interested in distributing. > > They are. That is mirror policy for primary mirrors. That is the > reason why amd64 is not in sid and consequently not in sarge. > > Instead of dropping archs from debian mirrors should be allowed to do > partial mirrors. That would solve the space and bandwith problems for > mirrors without adverse effects to the project as such.
And would break d-i, which currently provides a list of mirrors to choose from. Also notably, distribution on the main-mirror network is neither a requirement for nor a part of being in tier-1 Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15