Package: apt Version: 0.3.13 Severity: normal /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update bangs out with an error code if apt-get update cannot fetch one of the package lists. Given that apt-get already does error-recovery, and that only some of the package lists may have failed to download (and old, supposedly 'known-good' copies used in their place), update should run the "Merging Available information" portion regardless.
I was tempted to flag this bug as grave, since security updates will never be applied by dselect to a system where any of the entries in sources.apt is broken. Temporary patch: file: /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update replace the line: $APTGET $OPTS update with the lines: set +e $APTGET $OPTS update set -e -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux godzillah 2.2.12 #1 Sat Aug 28 19:24:23 BRT 1999 i586 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
