defaults are very debiany

[Chris Jones]

Even though this tool is called debmirror, out of the box it would be far more useful if it actually mirrored ubuntu.
To actually get it to do that at the moment requires manually setting --dist --root --section and --host

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

This is a package that is synced straight from debian, hence the defaults will always be debian-like, unless someone changes them.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

I changed the settings, not keen to redo all the doco.
only thing really relevant to ubuntu would be to mention it exists, and change the archive sizes to include ubuntu release size.
kk

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

There are some minor changes (a full stop, a s/is/as, s#/home/me#$HOME#, s/debian/Debian, etc) that should really go direct back to upstream.

Patch to change doco/defaults to relfect ubuntu instead of debian.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

adding to the universe sponsorship que - fingers crossed.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Please do the changes via patches rather than directly change the source, otherwise it's awful to maintain them.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

Also, please consider that all documentation changes will have to be maintained, thus you should try to change as few as possible.

Please resubscribe universe sponsors when you're done.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debmirror - 1:2.4.6ubuntu1

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debmirror (1:2.4.6ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/{control,rules}: add quilt for patch management.
    - Debian bug 455082:
      - default-settings.patch: change rsync defaults.
      - silence-errors.patch: throw away find errors.
      - functionalize.patch: prepare for batching of non-deb files.
      - drop-redundant-rsync.patch: clean up logic in rsync batching.
      - check_file-return.patch: report why a file needs to sync.
      - command-exit-checking.patch: check exit codes of commands.
    - skip-installer.patch: allow specific releases to be skipped (Debian
      bug 576576).
    - rsync-retries.patch: retry if rsync batch fails connection (Debian
      bug 576577).

  [ Francisco Javier P.L. ]
  * ubuntu-settings.patch: Changed defaults to download Ubuntu (LP: #64345),
    replaced most instances of Debian with Ubuntu in the documentation.
    Changed examples to be more Ubuntu relevent, patch thanks to Karl Goetz.
 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:05:40 +0200