On 2025-12-11 14:10, Roman Lebedev wrote: > I'm not at all convinced that detecting ubuntu mirror > by matching for ubuntu in domain name makes any sense. > There's plenty of mirrors that contain that substring in URI > and not in domain name.
The substring test is on the full URI, not just the domain name. > Why can't the DistroInfo approach be used? DistroInfo can tell you whether it's a Debian or Ubuntu release, but it can't (AFAICT) tell you whether codename X is older than codename Y, which is one of the problems we are facing here. > Why can't the detection be codename-based? That's what I meant below, with the hard-coded approach. >> If you want to go ahead, search for "jessie" in autopkgtest-build-qemu >> and see that there is already a hard-coded list for older releases in >> there. It would probably be the easiest to just follow that, for the >> older releases. autopkgtest depends on python3-distro-info but I didn't >> see a ranking/sorting function there. Best, Christian
