We have seen this happen on 2 or 3 boxes since my last reply, is a very annoying bug, and a problem, because these oldstable boxes are deployed as production servers and cannot easily be upgraded. I will try backporting apt-cacher-ng and see if it helps.
On 23 Nov 2013, at 21:46, intrigeri <intrig...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Eduard Bloch wrote (10 Sep 2013 20:03:54 GMT) : >> * James Bennet [Tue, Sep 10 2013, 03:47:17PM]: >>> I am using Debian Squeeze amd64, kernel 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64. > >> Maybe you should update to Debian Stable? > > Just my 2 cents: one for James, the other for Eduard. > > James: Squeeze is still supported for a few more months. However we, > as package maintainers, don't always have time to fix all more or less > important bugs in oldstable. It's sometimes hard to find an > appropriate balance of our efforts between supporting oldstable/stable > on the one hand, and working on the next version of Debian on the > other hand. In this specific case, perhaps you could try backporting > apt-cacher-ng from Wheezy for Squeeze. This might be the simplest way > to solve the software error you're facing. > > Eduard: it's not the user's fault if we're shipping buggy software in > a Debian distribution that is still officially supported. Assuming the > user is otherwise happy with running oldstable for some reason, > suggesting a full OS upgrade to fix a bug in one single package seems > needlessly dismissive to me. > > Take care, > -- > intrigeri > | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc > | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc
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