Re: Problems with testing

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   What do you get if you type "dpkg -s apt" and
Hmmm, this could be the source of the problem!
I'm using an inofficial apt because there was a problem with our firewall.
It is:

~> dpkg -s apt
Package: apt
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: base
Installed-Size: 1872
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Version: 0.4.8
Replaces: libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7)
Provides: libapt-pkg3.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10
Suggests: dpkg-dev

> "apt-cache showpkg libapt-pkg2.7"?
But this seems to be reasonable:

~> apt-cache showpkg libapt-pkg2.7
Package: libapt-pkg2.7
Versions:

Reverse Depends:
  console-apt,libapt-pkg2.7
  debconf,libapt-pkg2.7
  apt-move,libapt-pkg2.7
  libapt-pkg-dev,libapt-pkg2.7
  gnome-apt,libapt-pkg2.7
  console-apt,libapt-pkg2.7
  aptitude,libapt-pkg2.7
Dependencies:
Provides:
Reverse Provides:
apt 0.3.19

Perhaps I should ask Jason Gunthorpe if he has a backport which fixes
the following problem also in apt-0.3.19:

> APT 0.4.8 has the fix, it should work. You proxy server is stripping
> content-length headers. Tsk Tsk

> You can get it for i386 potato at:

> deb http://people.debian.org/~jgg apt/

Curiousely enough I'm using apt-0.4.8 on several potato machines
without any problem.

Kind regards

       Andreas.