Hi, choose-mirror is the d-i component responsible for presenting users with a list of available mirrors from which packages can be installed. The list it provides is periodically updated based on the "masterlist" maintained by the Mirrors Team.
I'd like to suggest that we get in the habit of updating the choose- mirror package more often, in order to provide a more current mirror list to d-i users. Most changes to the package consist of updates to the mirror list, or to translations of the included Debconf templates. Assuming that people are happy with the idea, a few questions on how we go about it: - Would it be preferred that updates follow the usual path of an upload to unstable followed by backports to stable and (when supported) oldstable? I've presumed that d-i won't have any issues with ~debXuY versions for udeb packages. - From the Release Team side, would people want p-u bugs filing each time, or could choose-mirror be considered to have a semi-permanent exception? For reference, the delta between the stable and unstable packages is currently the mirror list and a single translation update. The package ns oldstable is rather older, and the other changes from that version to unstable are: Makefile | 5 debian/choose-mirror-bin.templates.http-in | 1 debian/gbp.conf | 2 debian/salsa-ci.yml | 6 intltool-merge | 1369 ------------------------------------------------------- mirrorlist | 39 - mktemplates | 2 This is largely: + * debian/choose-mirror-bin.templates.http-in: Enable partial translation for + country list. + * mktemplates: Do not use our own intltool-merge. + * intltool-merge: Drop. [...] + * Sort deb.debian.org first, then ftp*.*.debian.org, then others. Opinions / objections / octopuses welcome. Regards, Adam
