Bug#128488: apt-get update should remember if a server is down

[Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Dieter.Friedrich@uni-konstanz.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

My sources.list contains i.e. :
deb http://source.rfc822.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb-src http://source.rfc822.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

if this server is down apt-get tries to read the Packages.gz from main 
until it runs in a connection timeout, then it tries to read the Packages.gz 
from contrib and non-free. Then the same for the sources. 

If apt-get would remember that this server is down, it could save a lot of time.

Yours, Joerg


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux goodhope 2.4.17 #1 Son Dez 23 13:44:52 CET 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.4-7           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library