I have the same problem. Trying this behind a proxy. As you can see in the wireshark output, only one request is made and no request is made for the .gpg file. wireshark output:
GET http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: identity Cache-Control: No-Cache Connection: close User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.5 Host: changelogs.ubuntu.com Proxy-Authorization: Basic basicauthisdumb Pragma: no-cache If-Modified-Since: Tue Apr 29 19:01:56 2008 HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:52:27 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) mod_python/3.1.4 Python/2.4.3 Last-Modified: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:25:57 GMT ETag: "29401e-cbb-8d27ff40" Accept-Ranges: bytes Cache-Control: max-age=7200 Expires: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:52:27 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Connection: close Age: 0 -- [Hardy] do-release-upgrade doesn't retrieve hardy gpg key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215694 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs