Bug#31557: apt: Doesn't handle archive outages gracefully

[Mark Alexander Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.1.9

When updating the package files apt causes the entire update to fail and
does not use data that was successfully downloaded.  This means that if
one of several archive sites fails for some reason the perfectly good
data downloaded from others is not avalible.

Unless, of course, I'm missing something obvious.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux damiel 2.0.34 #10 Fri Nov 6 22:57:22 GMT 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7v-1       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.60-2      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)

--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian frozen main contrib non-free

--- End /etc/apt/sources.list