Christian Rohmann schrieb am Donnerstag, dem 14. April 2016: > It might sound like a very non technical argument: But what apart from > mirrorbrain which is that powerful, free and field-proven is there as > alternative? I would rather work on getting pull requests ready > resolving the various little bugs and annoyances than to discuss > something completely different once again. It's not like mirrorbrain is > fundamentally unfit to work as good mirror redirector for Debian.
You could argue (and I have), that that file-based redirects are not ideal if your update is downloading lots of little files. The latency hit of many redirects is non-trivial. Regardless, currently httpredir.debian.org is in a bad shape, and users get errors when they are using it. This is unacceptable and it needs fixing. Even pointing the name to a single server that works, such as ftp.debian.org, would be better than the status quo. If we want to maintain some form of geographic closeness for it, then pointing it to deb.debian.org seems like something we could try. Raphael indicated that he plans to fix httpredir and keep maintaining it. If that actually works out, maybe we don't need to change anything. We will see. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- https://www.debian.org/