[PATCH cygport] mirrors: update mirror_debian

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-03 10:35, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote:
> According to DebianGeoMirror page of Debian
> Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror), current reccomended
> Debian mirror archive URL with GeoMirror capability is
> "http://deb.debian.org/". So update mirror_debian to use it.
> ---
>  data/mirrors | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/data/mirrors b/data/mirrors
> index b0ef904..486a8f9 100644
> --- a/data/mirrors
> +++ b/data/mirrors
> @@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ mirror_ctan+=" http://mirror.ctan.org/"
>  #  SYNOPSIS
>  #  SRC_URI="mirror://debian/pool/main/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${PN}_${PV}.orig.tar.gz"
>  #  DEFAULT MIRROR
> -#  http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> +#  http://deb.debian.org/debian

Great - ftp.debian.org no longer responds - and all other http mirror services
are deprecated and redirect to deb.debian.org.

>  #  MIRROR LIST
> -#  http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
> +#  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror

NO - http://www.debian.org/mirror/list is the authoritative page (it says so);
whereas https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror is a discussion page.

>  #****
>  # grep '^  <td><a href' list  | sed -e 's#.*"\(.*\)/".*#\t\1#g'
> -mirror_debian+=" http://ftp.debian.org/debian"
> +mirror_debian+=" http://deb.debian.org/debian"

Great - ftp.debian.org no longer responds and deb.debian.org is canonical.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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