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

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

Apparently the law has changed in the US, so they no longer need to
ensure that certain things are hosted outside the US.

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