On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 09:54:30 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:08:53 +0000 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > http.debian.net/debian/ > > > > is exactly the same as > > > > httpredir.debian.org/debian/ > > > > The .org indicates it is an official, supported mirror but it makes no > > difference when updating and downloading. The former gets you to the > > latter. > > > > I am aware of this. I used to use httpredir.debian.org in my > sources.list, but switched to http.debian.net because honestly it just > looks better.
Looks do not matter. Either works for now and, for most users, it saves them agonising about which mirror to use. > Btw, what exactly is the purpose of '<release>-proposed-updates'? I > always enable it for completeness' sake, but is this good practice? https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates I've never used it and have no plans to do so.