On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 26 Nov 2016 at 18:40:38 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> > I think viewing deb.debian.org as beta is fair. Viewing the redirector >> > as deprecated or about to be closed down in not correct. There is a >> > diversity of views in both threads. >> >> There are. But all more or less agree that httpredir.debian.org is >> unmaintained and just cruising along on auto-pilot. > > Very informative. Either would do for me in the UK, I think (assuming > httpredir.debian.org stays around). Should we now be recommending > deb.debian.org in user now? What do we get from it for our money?
I went through the threads posted by you and Sven. I think you can recommend httpredir service untill there is a formal announcement of moving to deb.debian.org . The httpredir service is just not maintained but not deprecated. If it does not work as expected, bugs can be filed[1] with the following pseudo headers. Package: mirrors Severity: normal User: mirr...@packages.debian.org Usertags: httpredir [1] - https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00035.html -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
