Bug#119544: (no subject)

[Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer@canonical.com>]

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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?  If yes, can
this bug be consider for a fix at that point?
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