This was fixed in Version: 1.6~alpha6
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) 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/310262 Title: APT::Acquire::Retries only applies to archives and source files Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: apt The APT::Acquire::Retries configuration directive for apt only applies to source and archive, not the various index files (Packages, Release and friends). Intuitively, you would think that it should, but it does not. As far as I can tell, there is no other equivalent directive that would restrict the number of time apt should try to fetch an index case before it give up. This can trigger a relatively rare problem where apt would try to download the same index file again and again, forever until stopped, if the download systematically fail abruptly midway. See LP #291748 for such an example. If apt is being run automatically in the background, this could end consuming a lot of bandwidth and hammer the archive pretty badly before someone notice. According to long-standing upstream Debian bug #119544, fixing this bug would be a relatively trivial code change, but would break the ABI. As such, I would be curious to know if there is an ABI bump on apt roadmap; if yes, would it be possible to nominate this bug for the next major release of apt? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/310262/+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