Bug#695359: apt-get does not properly reuse connections with https

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:24:27PM +0100, Stefan Pfetzing wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.7.6
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch

Thanks for your bugreport and for the pointer to the patch.
 
> when using an https: connection, apt-get does not properly reuse
> connections. Because https setup costs can be quite high, this can cause
> much slowdown when, for example, many different distributions on the
> same server need to be checked.
> 
> There is a partially working patch on Ubuntu launchpad:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1087543
[..]

The patch from Thomas looks good and I applied it to bzr now. You say
that its only partially working? Why partial? What is missing or not
(quite) working?

Thanks,
 Michael