On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 23:22 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > Why do you use a proxy for HTTP in apt? > Are you forced to use a proxy (because direct HTTP connections are > disabled in your network), or do you just prefer to use a proxy > (perhaps in order to benefit from caching and similar features)? > > If direct HTTP are allowed on your network, you could consider > disabling the use of the proxy for apt-listbugs, by setting > > Acquire::http::Proxy::bugs.debian.org "DIRECT"; > > in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs > > This should make apt-listbugs bypass the proxy for its BTS queries. > Please see the apt-listbugs(1) man page.
it was the latter case, where i have a proxy set up for caching. thank you for the workaround, it has reduced the email volume and i'm only seeing #964438-related emails. -- andy <and...@diatribes.org> diatribes
