Hi, Am Montag, den 07.07.2014, 20:37 +0200 schrieb Iustin Pop: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:14:13AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > cabal-install currently doesn’t work with some proxies: > > https://github.com/haskell/HTTP/issues/68 > > > > This affects us (e.g. it breaks our package-plan jenkings job), and it > > would be nice to not have that bug in our next stable release. > > Unfortunately, HTTP maintenance means keeping it compiling and merging > > patches, but not debugging etc. > > > > Hence I’m looking for volunteers who would like to work on actual > > Haskell code (instead of just packaging scripts all the time) to look > > into the issue: See if you can reproduce it, find the code that needs to > > be changed and possibly even change it. > > Funny, the first thing I thought about when I saw this message was the > problems I had with apt-get from old Debian versions (about 8 years > ago), which had problems with pipelining - we had to disable pipelining > in the Debian installer at work, in order to work around Squid issues. > > And the issue you mention is exactly this - HTTP has pipelining issues > because it interacts badly with Squid. > > Would a workaround of simply add a no-pipelining option be enough? Not sure. Either pipelining is broken and we cannot fix it, then we should disable it completely in the Debian package. Or we can fix it, then we should. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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