Please CC, as I don't subscribe to this list. Tried to get this info through a couple of times now, but no joy :( Posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no answer :(
Chopped some parts. Left the essencial, I hope. And yes, I know the latest apt-listbugs version provides an alternative way (a server in Japan) to get the buglist info. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:28:32 +0200 (CEST) > From: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: apt-listbugs: 302 "Found" [snip] > All right, > > Some more info. This is what apt-listbugs requires from bugs.debian.org: > > ,---- > | Hypertext Transfer Protocol > | GET /~taru/apt-listbugs/index.db-critical.gz HTTP/1.1\r\n > | Request Method: GET > `---- > > And this is what it gets back from bugs.debian.org: > > ,---- > | Hypertext Transfer Protocol > | HTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\n > | Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:19:26 GMT\r\n > | Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2\r\n > | Location: http://bugs.debian.org/apt-listbugs.html\r\n > | Connection: close\r\n > | Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n > | Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n > | \r\n > | Data (232 bytes) > | > | 0000 64 63 20 0d 0a 3c 21 44 4f 43 54 59 50 45 20 48 dc ..<!DOCTYPE H > | 0010 54 4d 4c 20 50 55 42 4c 49 43 20 22 2d 2f 2f 49 TML PUBLIC "-//I > | 0020 45 54 46 2f 2f 44 54 44 20 48 54 4d 4c 20 32 2e ETF//DTD HTML 2. > | 0030 30 2f 2f 45 4e 22 3e 0a 3c 48 54 4d 4c 3e 3c 48 0//EN">.<HTML><H > | 0040 45 41 44 3e 0a 3c 54 49 54 4c 45 3e 33 30 32 20 EAD>.<TITLE>302 > | 0050 46 6f 75 6e 64 3c 2f 54 49 54 4c 45 3e 0a 3c 2f Found</TITLE>.</ > | 0060 48 45 41 44 3e 3c 42 4f 44 59 3e 0a 3c 48 31 3e HEAD><BODY>.<H1> > | 0070 46 6f 75 6e 64 3c 2f 48 31 3e 0a 54 68 65 20 64 Found</H1>.The d > | 0080 6f 63 75 6d 65 6e 74 20 68 61 73 20 6d 6f 76 65 ocument has move > | 0090 64 20 3c 41 20 48 52 45 46 3d 22 68 74 74 70 3a d <A HREF="http: > | 00a0 2f 2f 62 75 67 73 2e 64 65 62 69 61 6e 2e 6f 72 //bugs.debian.or > | 00b0 67 2f 61 70 74 2d 6c 69 73 74 62 75 67 73 2e 68 g/apt-listbugs.h > | 00c0 74 6d 6c 22 3e 68 65 72 65 3c 2f 41 3e 2e 3c 50 tml">here</A>.<P > | 00d0 3e 0a 3c 2f 42 4f 44 59 3e 3c 2f 48 54 4d 4c 3e >.</BODY></HTML> > | 00e0 0a 0d 0a 30 0d 0a 0d 0a ...0.... > `---- > > which it seems is unable to handle :( > > The text on that page: > > http://bugs.debian.org/apt-listbugs.html > > says: > > You are using a program called apt-listbugs. This program is called > automatically, by apt, when packages get upgraded. However, this > program was written, without consulting the BTS maintainers, nor > consideration of the increased load(both bandwidth and cpu) on the BTS > machine. > > Because of this, all cgi requests by apt-listbugs are being > redirected to this page. We are sorry for this inconvience. > > Is there any alternative server which can deliver the data? > > Although I understand the reasons (I read #207415), IMHO this was a poor > decision, as it does not provide an alternative. > > IMO, apt-listbugs increased popularity shows it is an great tool which > enables people to use Debian unstable, with lesser risk for rendering > their boxes useless because of occasional fatal bugs in new/upgraded > packages. Cheers, Cristian
