On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Where is it documented that httpredir is deprecated and that we should >> use deb.debian.org's service going forward? Has it been announce >> somewhere? > > There has been a thread on debian-devel (I can't find the Message-ID at > the moment) and the latest version of the next debian-installer for > Stretch switched the URL from httpredir.debian.org to deb.debian.org. > >> Also, will it work for Jessie or is it more for stretch or later? > > It will work a bit more efficient for Stretch+, but it also works as > intended for Wheezy and Jessie. >
Thanks Sven. Is this still a beta service or mature enough to be recommended to debian users? Hopefully there is a formal announcement on this. As it stands, httpredir is mentioned in many places. For example https://www.debian.org/mirror/list https://www.debian.org/mirror/ http://httpredir.debian.org/ and is all over the wiki (there are 145 hits for httpredir site:wiki.debian.org in google). Now I feel stupid for filing https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845769 today morning asking httpredir to be discussed in the debian-handbook. :FacePalm: raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog