Package: apt-file Version: 2.0.7 Severity: important 'apt-file update' silently fails (leaving the cache broken with a HTTP response in it instead of a gzip file) when it encounters a 30x HTTP redirect response from the repository.
See the Australian HTTP mirror for a Primary Mirror which issues 302 responses which trigger this problem: http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ apt-get and aptitude do not appear to have any problems using this mirror. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages apt-file depends on: ii curl 7.15.1-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS, FT ii gzip 1.3.5-12 The GNU compression utility ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.18+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libconfigfile-perl 1.2.1 Parses simple configuration files ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii wget 1.10.2-1 retrieves files from the web apt-file recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
