Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a free dial-up connection to the inernet and do long (like overnight) unattended downloads. When the connection is lost my wvdial program redials and a few minutes later reestablises a connection of my computer with the internet. But unfortunatly, by this time aptitude has given up downloading and fails to utilize the restored connection. Then my computer spends hours doing nothing (unattended). When a connection is lost, aptititude should wait several minutes before giving up downloading.
My isp (Southern California Freenet) only provides surplus bandwidth free and if it gets congested will drop non-paying users like me. Thus restoring broken connections is essential. Since not all other users redial there is usually surplus bandwidth to use after freeloaders are dropped so usually redialing works fine. But aptitude stops working. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: linux $DISPLAY not set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.11 Compiler: g++ 8.2.0 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.2 NCurses version 6.1 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20180714 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.2 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7f46000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0xb78f0000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0xb78ae000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0xb7886000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb787e000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7771000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb764c000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0xb7630000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0xb762b000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.30 (0xb73ea000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xb73ca000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7249000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb7146000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7128000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb6f4e000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xb6f35000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6f16000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6f03000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb6ed7000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xb6eb8000) libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0xb6e1f000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0xb6dfd000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f48000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xb6df5000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xb6deb000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6de1000) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.11-3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.6.4 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-10 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-10 ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-11 ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-6 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20180714-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-2.1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.24.0-1 ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-6 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20180714-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.7-2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.11-3 pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information