Dear Maintainer,

At the Tor Project, we're using Mirrobits to distribute the Tails
binaries, and we've contributed a patch upstream which we'd like to
deploy on our systems:

  Allow Geographical Sorting to be disabled - #225
https://github.com/videolabs/mirrorbits/pull/225

The patch has been merged upstream, but a new version hasn't yet been
released. We think that the best scenario would be if upstream released
a new version including the patch, followed by a new package upload to
Debian, but we acknowledge that that might not be possible in the short
term.

This bug intends to document such request and discuss alternatives in
case the release and packaging cycles will take long. We could, for
example, build a patched version and install manually on our systems, or
contribute a patched package to Debian via NMU, or something else.

Thanks for your time! :)

Zen Fu.

Here's the patch, as merged upstream.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mirrorbits, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1143828@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Arnaud Rebillout <arnaudr@debian.org> (supplier of updated mirrorbits package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:18:17 +0700
Source: mirrorbits
Architecture: source
Version: 0.6.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Mirrorbits Maintainers <mirrorbits@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Arnaud Rebillout <arnaudr@debian.org>
Closes: 1143828
Changes:
 mirrorbits (0.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream version [0.6.2] (Closes: #1143828)
   * Refresh patches, drop what's applied upstream
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