Bug#85521: apt-get gives up too early

[Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.COM>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19

Hi folks,

If there are several IP addresses for an URL, then apt-get should
try all before reporting

	404 Not Found

These are the error messages I had got:


Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmng1 
20 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.1MB/17.7MB of archives. After unpacking 529kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Err http://http.us.debian.org sid/main libqt2.2 2:2.2.4-2
  404 Not Found
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main ddd 3.3-2 [1583kB]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main debhelper 3.0.0 [179kB]                                                    
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main fping 2.2b2-3 [18.9kB]                                                     
Err http://http.us.debian.org sid/main libhdf4g 4.1r4-3                                                             
  404 Not Found
Err http://http.us.debian.org sid/main libmng-dev 1.0.0-1                                                           
  404 Not Found
:
:
Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tcl8.3/tcl8.3-dev_8.3.2-6_i386.deb
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tcl8.3/tcl8.3-doc_8.3.2-6_all.deb
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.4-2_i386.deb
  404 Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.



I had to restart the download several times to get all 17 MBytes.
apt-get could handle this a little bit smarter.


Many thanx

Harri