Bug#626026: Please provide an option to disable use of InRelease files, for use with mirrors using older mirroring scripts
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.14.1
Severity: normal
As documented in many different places, mirrors that haven't yet
switched to newer mirroring scripts
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors-announce/2011/02/msg00001.html>
will update the InRelease file at the wrong phase of the mirroring
process, causing the mirror to produce "Hash Sum Mismatch" errors for
long periods of time. Most mirrors don't seem to have switched to new
mirroring scripts yet. To work around this, please consider providing
an apt option to disable the use of InRelease files, which would allow
the use of such mirrors without experiencing prolonged brokenness every
day during mirroring.
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.13-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools
pn lzma <none> (no description available)
ii python-apt 0.7.100.3+b1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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