On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 15:24:42 +0000, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Have we gotten to the point where we consider deb.d.o suitable for > > production use? The web page still says Experimental (so I would assume > > "not production yet") and I'm not really sure if there will be a > > distinction between >=Stretch and <=Jessie in this regards. It looks > > like Jessie and earlier get a fallback mode of operation, but is that > > mode of operation suitable to be recommended for production? > > The fallback is not only needed for old apt versions but also for > clients behind webproxies that don't do SRV record lookups. (Which, at > a guess, would be all of them). > Also, the fallback is "just" a http redirect, so it's the same cost you'd pay when using httpredir.d.o.
Cheers, Julien
