Hello Julian, * Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> [250227 11:35]: > Control: tag -1 wontfix > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 11:21:21AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Package: apt > > Version: 2.9.30 > > > > While investigating a checksum mismatch error today, DSA and me > > would have had a much easier time if APT would print the received > > HTTP headers on such an error. > > > > IOW: > > > > When printing... > > > > E: Failed to fetch > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pyjwt/pyjwt_2.10.1-2.dsc File has > > unexpected size (24636 != 2390). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: > > 199.232.18.132 80] > > Hashes of expected file: > > - > > SHA256:18c7ac34d689629fef29f06a3de41a4c998c2a4ee42f9c36d7ebcaa12e051e8c > > - Filesize:2390 [weak] > > - MD5Sum:1dd7eb9413a1831538d87c7a1627d266 [weak] > > > > ..., please also print all received HTTP headers (including values), > > for example (but not limited to) X-Served-By, X-Cache, X-Cache-Hits, > > Age, Via, Last-Modified, Content-Length, Date. > > I am going to say no; because this is a significant detriment to > the user experience, and carries significant security concerns as > well. All the headers need to have unsafe characters removed, etc.
> We have many many years ago implemented a hook system for mirror > failure reports that nobody actually started using, but that would > be the appropriate infrastructure to use. How does that work and how would that tie into the existing infrastructure? How do you propose we debug these seldomly but occuring problems? Enabling debug flags that print debug messages regardless if there is an error or not is not an option for these jobs. Chris
