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Bug#283600: RC2 succeeded; unhelpful error message



Colin Watson wrote:
> The main trick will be telling the difference between a retrieval
> failure and some other kind.  base-installer already knows about the
> specific names of debootstrap errors, so it doesn't seem out of the
> question for it to handle some of them differently.  Do you think it
> would be OK to special-case the COULDNTDL and COULDNTDLPKGS errors,
> possibly in run-debootstrap.c, and send those off into a special code
> path that offers this menu?

Yes, I think that'd be fine.

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