On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:32:00PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:23:57PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > On Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 14:54:01 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:56:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > Can anyone thing of a reason why we shouldn't have Volatile-*: fields in > > > > the mirror list? > > > > > > I assume it is an historical reason : volatile was not an official > > > project at the beginning. > > > > > > But I see no reason for not including volatile in the main list, now it > > > is an official project :-) > > > > Feel free to do so, but please contact Filipe van der Wiel, he is the > > mirror coordinator of volatile.debian.org > > I went to have a look at that stuff... it appears that there is a separate > http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/project/Mirrors.masterlist > which is processed by an old forked copy of our mirror_list.pl to generate > http://www.debian.org/volatile/volatile-mirrors > Cc:ing Luk Claes who originally implemented that (judging by CVS commit logs). > > Nowadays, this is obviously insane :) so unless someone has anything to add, > I'll go merge the data into the main Mirrors.masterlist, merge the > forked code into the main mirror/mirror_list.pl script, etc.
As there was no consensus at the time if merging was what we wanted, this was meant as a temporary solution till the consensus was reached ;-) > (A benefit that may not be obvious is that this way we will also be able to > trivially add the volatile archive into the Debian mirror checkers.) This was one of the reasons there was no clear consensus at the time... I guess there is now a consensus, so feel free to merge! Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
