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

[Stefan Pfetzing <dreamind@dreamind.de>]

Hi Michael,

On 09.01.2013 11:14, Michael Vogt wrote:
> 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 for applying the patch.

Actually I haven't tried the patch myself, but a colleague did. He said, 
this patch broke the logging of the error string, and this I meant by 
"partial working".

Thanks,
Stefan