Bug#109931: apt: apt ignores /etc/hosts file when deciding which mirror to use.

[Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal

I have the following in my /etc/hosts file:
209.10.41.242   http.us.debian.org

And nsswitch.conf says:
hosts:          files dns

Theoretically, this should make the /etc/hosts entry for http.us.debian.org
override DNS.  But this is obviously not the case:

adam@maguro:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  apt-move
12 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1  not upgraded.
Need to get 12.9MB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main sysvinit 2.82-1
  404 Not Found [IP: 192.25.206.10 80]
Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main less 358-8
  404 Not Found [IP: 192.25.206.10 80]

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>