503 also has a Retry-After field that you can use to communicate when to retry, although we do not have any support for retrying things, apart from twice a day, as systemd does not offer this ability to our type of timer. And for interactive use, well, the user will retry manually.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1825001 Title: Allow archives to send a 4xx response to tell apt to try again later Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As part of a broad plan to improve our ability to manage traffic to the archive servers, it would be useful if the archives could return a 4xx response to indicate to apt that they were over capacity and it should try again later, where later could be defined on the client side as several hours, the next day for unattended-upgrades runs, etc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1825001/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
