Use ftpmirror.gnu.org to retrieve bison dependency

Stefan Constantinrequested to merge
replace_ftp_gnu_org_with_mirror into master

What does this MR do?

ftp.gnu.org over https sometimes becomes unresponsive for some time and most pipelines will then fail.

Switching to ftpmirror.gnu.org should improve this situation

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&18

#2269

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