That's frustrating for those of us who want to use unofficial mirrors to
upgrade.  I can see disabling mirrors that aren't up to date or that
don't have the files necessary to upgrade to intrepid, but a lot of
people use "unofficial" yet well-known and up-to-date mirrors
(mirrors.kernel.org, ftp.usf.edu, mirror.anl.gov, etc.) to get their
ubuntu packages.  I think unilaterally disabling these mirrors from
their their sources.list is pretty aggressive and will cause some pretty
serious bandwidth crunches on the official mirrors when 8.10 is
released.  It's also confusing, as there is no notification that this is
going to happen, nor is there any option to use local or non-official
mirrors.

Finally, there aren't any official US mirrors.  The official US mirror
points at archive.ubuntu.org, which is located in London.  If you are
going to do something like this, shouldn't we have an official mirror in
the country with the largest number of Ubuntu users?

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[8.10] update-manager ignores sources.list during hardy->intrepid upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289952
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