Launchpad now writes out Translation-en.bz2 for PPAs and includes it in Release, preventing apt from probing. This will gradually roll out to all existing PPAs as new packages are uploaded to them.
** Changed in: launchpad Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1171047 Title: update-manager times out checking for updates Status in Launchpad itself: Fix Released Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I've bought a number of humble bundle games that were activated through the software centre, so I have quite a lot of sources in apt. The server that they come from is so terribly slow to fetch from that it causes the update manager to time out when checking for updates. See the attached file for the timestamped output from apt-get update, and you'll see that while it's generally slow (multiple seconds between requests once the normal speed ones are dealt with) there is one that takes about 12 minutes to respond at all (13:21:48 to 13:34:12) This means that I can't update through the ubuntu update manager, nor does it tell me when updates are available. My internet is quite good, the first lot of sources complete in ~10 seconds, the problem seems to be at the private-ppa.launchpad.net server end. However, this wouldn't be such an issue if the update manager didn't time out (but really the solution is to fix the apt servers.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: update-manager 1:0.185 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-17.27-generic 3.8.6 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Aptdaemon: Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 21 13:39:54 2013 GsettingsChanges: b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1366195146' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'470' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'583' InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-04-26 (725 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: update-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-13 (7 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1171047/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp