On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett <asack...@artsackett.com> wrote: > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're > having, the workaround is to create the file > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: > > Acquire > { > http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefox/60.0"; > };
By what mental procedure did you arrive at that workaround? It doesn't seem to /coule de source/, at least for me. > This changes apt's HTTP User-Agent string to that of a recent Firefox, > which magically prevents the mirror servers from dropping apt's > connections. > > This is Debian bug #942478: This is you and your bug. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942478 > > -- "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." -- Robert Louis Stevenson