Bug#100916: apt: dialup timeouts

[Gordon Haverland <ghaverla@materialisations.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist

I normally connect to the world via a dialup from a firewall
running FreeSCO.  I have a time out for FreeSCO, after which
it drops line.  If apt-get happens to hit a quiet period, it
sometime happens that FreeSCO drops the line, while apt-get
is waiting for a packet.  After this, no transfer ever seems
to occur.  It would be nice if apt-get had some kind of a timeout
value, such that if it hadn't recieved a packet in a certain
length of time, it would "tickle" the other end to see if it
could re-initiate transfer.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux main 2.2.19 #1 Wed Apr 18 15:08:46 MDT 2001 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.3-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01060 The GNU stdc++ library