severity 316482 normal retitle 316482 apt-file: jarring 404 warnings from back end should be hidden from view thanks
As far as I can tell, the 404 is not actually an error from apt-file's perspective. It faithfully reports that the file is not available but it's not a fatal condition at all. To verify, add more servers to the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list, or reorder the entries you have there; on my installation, it proceeds past the 404 and tries to fetch files for the remaining servers just fine. HOWEVER, I agree that these 404 errors scared me too at first; probably the back end's output should be hidden from view or filtered somehow under normal conditions -- the output is only useful for debugging, and (at least with wget) even then it's painfully verbose. In any event, it's hardly a problem that apt-file will not be able to search for matches in security updates; they're bound to contain exactly the same files as the corresponding packages in the regular archive except under very special conditions. Feel free to lower this further down to wishlist priority as far as I'm concerned. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
