On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:58:00PM +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:51 PM, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you see 403 errors it is one of the rare cases that > > an upload severely breaks many users systems, and it is > > a safety measure to limit the number of people that > > install the upload. > > I'm not sure what the status of this is, as I haven't encountered the > situation in a while, but previously when 403 errors were issued, I > had people coming to me in bafflement. update-manager didn't seem to > give a potential explanation for the error (and there is surely very > little chance it could be anything else). Perhaps an explanation could > be added to save users' confusion?
I also recall a fair number of bug reports regarding 403 errors when a package has been removed from the archive and think a notification in update-manager would be helpful. -- Brian Murray @ubuntu.com
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