retitle 636292 dak/apt: deficiencies at handling out-of-sync metadata summary 636292 87 thanks
If anyone disagrees with the above triage, please change the summary and/or title. Thank you. On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > #636292 is labelled as being about round-robin mirrors and problems > APT has with those, even though that is probably not the actual > cause of the reporter's problem. You're expected to read the entire thing when refered to a bug report in a thread you're replying to. Anyway, triaged. I didn't want to do it because it is not my bug, it is not a package I work on, and I have no idea wether the apt developers agree with my anaylsis of #636292 or not. Please feel free to improve the title or chose a new summary. > But indeed, there would be room for a general bug "unreliable > package indices fetching protocol" :-S That misses the point, IMO. To me, it looks like what's "broken" is that the repository format _and_ the front-ends have deficiencies at handling metadata which is unsyncronized either in-mirror or across mirrors. And these deficiencies are a lot more important nowadays than they once were, as we have now many dinstall runs per day, lots of users tracking testing and unstable, a larger set of metadata files, a larger and more diverse set of mirrors... I.e: a lot more chances to hit unsyncronized metadata windows. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
