On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:30:44 -0400 Donald Norwood <dnorw...@portalus.com> wrote: > I don't know that the backports mirrors are going anywhere in the short > term, if you want to mirror it it can be added as it was indicated on > your original submission form.
Yes please. (and since the last release that used the _seperate_ backports repository instead of the one on the usual archive mirror network was squeezy, the idea that it will disappear soon is probably not too far fetched) > The submission form stated: > Archive-architecture: ALL amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 > kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390x sparc > When checking the indices on your mirror however, all architectures were > listed. As such I sought confirmation of which was correct. Some mirrors > do drop architectures. Yeah I realized that when I reread the message. However "ALL" is the keyword here, and actually the only checkbox we ticked manually. The mirror submission form then automatically selects all the individual architectures it has. However, in the list on the mirror submission form, arm64, ia64, ppc64el and s390 are missing; probably because they are not supported by the current debian release, only by older releases. > > Some additional comments, mostly answers to some questions I often see > > asked in the large list of open mirror requests: > > - Available bandwidth is 5 GBit (why is that not asked on the form? > > Seems to be a pretty important piece of info.) > Right beneath the comments box is a note that states: > Note: if there is more than one sponsor, add the others in the comment. > You may also want to note if the mirror gets updated less frequently > than once a day, and how fast the site is (its maximum bandwidth). Adding an extra selection box for the bandwidth that contains the usual data rates would probably prevent more people from overlooking that like we did :) Even if your correct bandwidth is not available from the selection box, it would make you remember to state "i had to select 2 gbit above because 5 gbit was not listed, 5 gbit is correct" in the comment box. > There is an unofficial listing of mirrors that serve https (that needs > updating), though at this time there is no plan to publish an official > listing or direction push as there are so few mirrors that provide the > service. We have had a few discussions on the topic in the > #debian-mirrors channel on IRC. Though this discussion is a little off-topic here, my 2 cents are that the fact that only few mirrors offer this service is not an argument not to list it in the official list. On the contrary, if it would be listed, more mirror admins could get the idea that this is a service worth offering. Best regards, -- Michael Meier, FTP-Admin Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen Martensstrasse 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Tel.: +49 9131 85-28973, Fax: +49 9131 302941 rrze-ftp-adm...@fau.de blogs.fau.de/ftp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
