On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:33:53PM +0000, Timm Murray wrote: > > Results of post to debian-devel (so far) attached. Serious concerns hinge > > around the question 'why?' (from debian's POV - i.e. not the cover traffic > > argument). Any good suggestions not already covered? > > They are right that the field should be "X-Freenet:" instead of adding a new offical >field. > There's no reason the whole Debian project should bend over backwards everytime > someone wants to add a new Apt meathod. If in the future Apt-Freenet becomes > popular, then we can make it an offical "Freenet:" field (or not). Yeah, that's fine. As long as it's autogenerated *on ftp.debian.org* (without necessarily inserting the content). > > They have a point that most mirrors in the UK (probably the US, too) are cramed full >of > bandwidth and are not in any danger of being saturated. However, the fact that >there > are mirrors at all requires a lot of adminstration and coordination. Further, FTP >is a Is this their problem? > absolute mess of a protocol; it's a big security risk all on it's own, plus it takes >some > major hacking to get it to work through firewalls. I for one would love to see FTP >go the > way of the Gopher (and to see Gopher make a comeback, but that's another issue). Most/many of these mirrors also do HTTP. > > Freenet would do away with the majority of the FTP servers as far as Debian is > concered, as well as reducing the hundreds of people needed to adminster the mirrors > and bring it down to a few dozen people (though they would need to be more active >than > the people adminstering the mirrors now). Debian's FTP servers would basicly consit >of > a primary distribution point, a scattering of fall-back mirrors (in case you can't >get a > package off Freenet), plus the developer's FTP servers that are already there. So >there > is a net reduction in the ammount of adminstration needed. >
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