On Fri February 29 2008 16:36:17 Tim Channon wrote: > Package netselect is broken for a large class of users, 6+ year old > fatal bug misclassified as wishlist > I guess someone thought that pass through firewall was a major code > change, hence wishlist, is apparently not that at all. > > netselect-apt incorrectly complains about the firewall
Even when there is no firewall, the etch version of netselect-apt complains about a firewall and fails, at least that was the result each of the four or five times I tried it during the last few months. The lenny version gives a result but the result seems to be almost meaningless. Ping time is not a measure of connection throughput, server overload, or mirror currency. A rewrite of netselect-apt which considered these attributes and also supported rsync would be a valuable tool if anyone is looking for a project. Meanwhile, whenever a mirror becomes sufficiently annoying, we select some candidates from http://www.de.debian.org/dmc/today/ and run manual benchmarks. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
