Bug#221664: apt-get source: Handle failed source downloads more gracefully

To: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>, 221664@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#221664: apt-get source: Handle failed source downloads more gracefully
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:09:22 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 20031119170922.GM9377@dijkstra.csh.rit.edu>
Reply-to: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>, 221664@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20031119133245.31C626C01F@damiel.sirena.org.uk>
References: <[🔎] 20031119133245.31C626C01F@damiel.sirena.org.uk>

severity 221664 wishlist
merge 221664 57869
thanks

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:32:45PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.14
> Severity: normal
> 
> When downloading a binary package fails and there is another download
> site for that package apt-get will fall over to using that other site.
> With source packages apt-get appears to fail hard on the first site.  It
> would be nice if this could be handled in the same way as it is for
> binary packages.

Duplicate, merging.

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 - mdz

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