> > > There have been some discussion about a new setup for the archive to > better represent import & export problems. I want to make a few remarks > which I think people should consider: > > * I think we should always have a `main archive' that can be mirrored > everywhere without having to play weird tricks with mirror. We should > put a mirror configuration somewhere to show people how to do this.
Although I agree it would be a (very) good thing if this is enforced, I would like to note that it wouldn't be impossible if we were to require some specific debian tool to mirror the archive. This `debian-mirror' tool can then be used by one (or more) central site in every `resriction-region', and the other sites in that `restriction-region' would mirror from that central site. Or, as an example: suppose the main archive is in the UK, and contains crypto stuff. And we need some `debian-mirror --non-crypto' tool to filter out this crypto stuff. Then ftp-us.debian.org (the central US site) would use that `debian-mirror --non-crypto' tool go get the stuff it needs from the site in the UK, and every other site in the US simply mirrors from that `ftp-us.debian.org' site. The other mirrors can run NT or whatever, and don't need the special `debian-mirror' tool (or whatever the name will be). Having said that, I do agree it would be better to have the main site mirrorable in every coutry directly. It's just that, as there come more strange laws in strange countries (vi in illegal in the USE (United States of Emacsen, to be created by Emacs fanatics)?). > * This main archive *should not have unmet dependencies*.=20 Yes. That's best achieved by putting the complete distribution in main, including the crypto stuff. (and by letting packages inherit the restrictions from the packages they depend on, all of the derived archives also don't have unmet dependencies). [Agree with everything that follows]
