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Re: [LUG] What's happening to the non-US repositories?

 

On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:16, Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Debian Sid.  My sources.list file contains deb and deb-src entries for
> unstable main, contrib, non-free, non-US/contrib, non-US/main and
> non-US/non-free.  Basically all the potential unstable/Sid options without
> going to non-mainstream repositories.
>
> However, I had to hunt around a little to find the non-US repositories for
> Sid.  None of the UK mirrors had it, or the French, or the Spanish, or very
> many others.  I went for a German mirror, but it would seem that they too
> have now removed non-US for unstable/Sid.
>
> Does anyone know why?
>

Since the release of Debian Sarge, non-US isn't needed anymore. The US have 
changed whatever silly law they had, so all the non-US packages are in the 
normal repository now.

Regards,
David.

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