[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

[manuel.montezelo at gmail.com]

2016-12-24 02:55 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>
>This seems to be due to changes in behaviour of apt or some strange
>interaction, because the relevant sections of aptitude have not changed
>in a long time.  (I didn't experience the same behaviour because I
>couldn't upgrade my computer at the time).
>[...]
>
>Anyway, I think that I fixed it now, by not being strict with this kind
>of errors (to cope with what I think that it's a new behaviour from
>libapt)... I am just not sure if this change will bring other problems,
>let's see.

Note, just in case... relevant commits of apt seem to be:

commit 1044354995513348f4836772fe77068585091d6b
Author: David Kalnischkies <david at kalnischkies.de>
Date:   Wed Aug 24 21:49:34 2016 +0200

    improve code & doc for aquire weak/loop failing


commit 2e2865ae53a65c00dd55a892d5b48458f3110366
Author: David Kalnischkies <david at kalnischkies.de>
Date:   Wed Aug 24 09:47:48 2016 +0200

    do fail on weakhash/loop earlier in acquire


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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>