Hi, 

On Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22:29 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> I'd really like to see support for sane mirror selection in apt itself,
> possibly with archive support (i.e. list of mirrors somewhere on
> ftp.d.o).  That would allow apt to for instance retry on a different
> server if the first one it tried does not work for some reason, and
> maybe even report the problem to a central mirror.

some information about this might be outdated by now, but the idea still
stands: http://wiki.debian.org/RedirectProposal

Maybe make this a GSoC2011 project?

Cheers,
Martin
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