Hi,
I think the "mirror" method Michael Vogt described above is useful in many 
situation. In other situations, it would be highly preferable to simply have 
apt honor 3xx status codes and follow redirects. I can see no reason why this 
should be either hard or insecure. Speaking of security, as long as the 
packages are signed, the signatures are valid and the keys used for the 
signatures can be trusted: What are the implications here?

I would like the maintainers of apt/aptitude to reconsider implementing
redirection in apt/aptitude.

Thanks!

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