having troubles adding info to 1 and/or 2 an existing bug(s)
Please CC, as I don't subscribe to this list.
Tried to get this info through a couple of times now, but no joy :(
Posted to owner@bugs.debian.org, but no answer :(
Chopped some parts. Left the essencial, I hope. And yes, I know the latest
apt-listbugs version provides an alternative way (a server in Japan) to
get the buglist info.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:28:32 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>
> Reply-To: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>
> To: 207415@bugs.debian.org, 207541@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apt-listbugs: 302 "Found"
[snip]
> All right,
>
> Some more info. This is what apt-listbugs requires from bugs.debian.org:
>
> ,----
> | Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> | GET /~taru/apt-listbugs/index.db-critical.gz HTTP/1.1\r\n
> | Request Method: GET
> `----
>
> And this is what it gets back from bugs.debian.org:
>
> ,----
> | Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> | HTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\n
> | Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:19:26 GMT\r\n
> | Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2\r\n
> | Location: http://bugs.debian.org/apt-listbugs.html\r\n
> | Connection: close\r\n
> | Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n
> | Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n
> | \r\n
> | Data (232 bytes)
> |
> | 0000 64 63 20 0d 0a 3c 21 44 4f 43 54 59 50 45 20 48 dc ..<!DOCTYPE H
> | 0010 54 4d 4c 20 50 55 42 4c 49 43 20 22 2d 2f 2f 49 TML PUBLIC "-//I
> | 0020 45 54 46 2f 2f 44 54 44 20 48 54 4d 4c 20 32 2e ETF//DTD HTML 2.
> | 0030 30 2f 2f 45 4e 22 3e 0a 3c 48 54 4d 4c 3e 3c 48 0//EN">.<HTML><H
> | 0040 45 41 44 3e 0a 3c 54 49 54 4c 45 3e 33 30 32 20 EAD>.<TITLE>302
> | 0050 46 6f 75 6e 64 3c 2f 54 49 54 4c 45 3e 0a 3c 2f Found</TITLE>.</
> | 0060 48 45 41 44 3e 3c 42 4f 44 59 3e 0a 3c 48 31 3e HEAD><BODY>.<H1>
> | 0070 46 6f 75 6e 64 3c 2f 48 31 3e 0a 54 68 65 20 64 Found</H1>.The d
> | 0080 6f 63 75 6d 65 6e 74 20 68 61 73 20 6d 6f 76 65 ocument has move
> | 0090 64 20 3c 41 20 48 52 45 46 3d 22 68 74 74 70 3a d <A HREF="http:
> | 00a0 2f 2f 62 75 67 73 2e 64 65 62 69 61 6e 2e 6f 72 //bugs.debian.or
> | 00b0 67 2f 61 70 74 2d 6c 69 73 74 62 75 67 73 2e 68 g/apt-listbugs.h
> | 00c0 74 6d 6c 22 3e 68 65 72 65 3c 2f 41 3e 2e 3c 50 tml">here</A>.<P
> | 00d0 3e 0a 3c 2f 42 4f 44 59 3e 3c 2f 48 54 4d 4c 3e >.</BODY></HTML>
> | 00e0 0a 0d 0a 30 0d 0a 0d 0a ...0....
> `----
>
> which it seems is unable to handle :(
>
> The text on that page:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/apt-listbugs.html
>
> says:
>
> You are using a program called apt-listbugs. This program is called
> automatically, by apt, when packages get upgraded. However, this
> program was written, without consulting the BTS maintainers, nor
> consideration of the increased load(both bandwidth and cpu) on the BTS
> machine.
>
> Because of this, all cgi requests by apt-listbugs are being
> redirected to this page. We are sorry for this inconvience.
>
> Is there any alternative server which can deliver the data?
>
> Although I understand the reasons (I read #207415), IMHO this was a poor
> decision, as it does not provide an alternative.
>
> IMO, apt-listbugs increased popularity shows it is an great tool which
> enables people to use Debian unstable, with lesser risk for rendering
> their boxes useless because of occasional fatal bugs in new/upgraded
> packages.
Cheers,
Cristian
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