Hi Vincent (and anyone else reading this), On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:05:51AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > As a side note, it is really sad that APT imposes a 1min timeout > for such problem. I proposed a patch in #668948 but never got any > feedback :-(
You are like most people under the impression the APT team has a healthy size and could stay on top of the incoming bugreports and even triage older ones… but unfortunately we are not. The report isn't tagged as including a patch so another "good" reason to get lost in our pile… apt has earned and needs to defend its second place[0] after all… :( It does sound similar to another bugreport I replied to "recently" (#636871) talking about "Happy Eyeballs" (RFC6555) which seems like the formalisation of your implementation – and that newcomer offer is still up for grabs (as all others I have ever made, just saying…). The patch itself looks a bit strange on first look regarding general style, using environment variables instead of config options and I am not a gigantic fan of 90% code copies of functions in the same file (with a name diffing only in naming-styles…) – and it of course doesn't apply cleanly anymore, but if you are still interested in working on this we can surely work this all out. Just ping the bug with an updated patch and I will work on a more detailed review. Thanks in any case for report and initial patch and sorry for not getting feedback in years from the fellowship of the cow! Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugs-by-source
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