Bug#138243: apt: apt package fetching doesn't fetch correctly and needs manual interventions

[Stephane Magnenat <nct@ysagoon.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important

In my system (Athlon 1.2Ghz, 768MB RAM, Debian Woody, ADSL 512/128 connection
through hardware router),
since one or two mounth when I use apt-get dist-upgrade apt just get about
15% of the packages,
and I need to rerun it about 15 times to get the whole thing. But by doing
that some packages are
fetch multiple times since it doesn't seems to handle correctly partial
packages.
This is extremly annoying since I have to manually CTRL-C apt-get after some
packages (first packages
seems to work better than others), do a dpkg -i, do a apt-get -f install,
then recursivly do apt-get dist-upgrade.

Strangly this problem seems linked to my connection because a friend download
its packages with modem
without problem at home but experiences the same problems at my place.

Note that apt tries to fetch 2 or 3 packages at the same time.

I hope you'll fint the problem

Stephane

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux nctlin.ysagoon.com 2.4.17-k7 #2 Sat Dec 22 22:03:49 EST
2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
 Timezone ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-1       The GNU stdc++ library