Bug#658346: APT does not work with a repository at Sourceforge

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

notfound 658346 0.8.16
found 658346 0.7.20.2
thanks

Hi

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:40, Chris Greenshields
<c.greenshields@opencfd.co.uk> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.16

I have to ask: Where do you got that version from? ;)
(as this potential confuses the hell out of the BTS i removed that
 marker and set oldstable as found instead.)


> When attempting to install a package which is held in a repository at
> Sourceforge, it reports the error:
>
> Err...
>  Got a single header line over 360 chars
> Failed to fetch...
>  Got a single header line over 360 chars

Can you tell us the repository for testing proposes?


> Simply increasing MAXLEN to 500, or 1000 to be safe, would fix this
> problem.

This limit looks pretty random, i guess we could life without that
entirely, but i will take a bit of time to meditate about the possible
reasoning behind this (as it is included and unchanged since nearly
the start of APT development back in the last century…).


Best regards

David Kalnischkies