Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 26 Nov 2016 at 11:51:19 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>> 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). > For the -devel thread: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00071.html I had a more recent thread in mind and I just found it. It was kind of buried inside the "When should we https our mirrors?" thread. From: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00362.html ,----[ Peter Palfrader <wea...@debian.org> | > TL;DR: Would we now recommend deb.d.o over httpredir.d.o for | > production use e.g. in base images (including for Jessie)? | | Yes. `---- And here https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00490.html one of the maintainers behind deb.debian.org states the "experimental" phase has ended: ,----[ Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> | As of this morning, the bit about experimental was removed from the web | page. `---- And here the reference for d-i (more precisely debootstrap) switching to deb.debian.org: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00006.html > 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. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
