Hello Etienne. Etienne Goyer wrote: > I would be very interested in getting the topic of this bug implemented > eventually. As discussed in Debian #509369 and Ubuntu #291748, the > current behavior of retrying forever downloads that failed could lead to > some really bad results under some circumstances (ie, misbehaving > proxies, etc). Having APT::Acquire::Retries apply to index files would > at least allow a way to prevent these failure mode from getting out of hand. > > Is there any plan to bump the ABI some time in the future? Yes, after Lenny, at 0.8.x apt series. > If yes, can this bug be consider for a fix at that point? I guess 'yes'. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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