Hi!

Reproduction on bookworm with apt 2.6.1, with a mirror that is
configured (through iptables) to not respond:

root@debian:~# cat /etc/os-release | grep CODENAME
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
root@debian:~# apt --version
apt 2.6.1 (amd64)
root@debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://server.local.net/12 ./

root@debian:~#
root@debian:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://server.local.net/12 ./ InRelease
Ign:1 http://server.local.net/12 ./ InRelease
Ign:1 http://server.local.net/12 ./ InRelease
Err:1 http://server.local.net/12 ./ InRelease
Could not connect to server.local.net:80 (192.168.0.28), connection
timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://server.local.net/12/./InRelease Could not
connect to server.local.net:80 (192.168.0.28), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
root@debian:~#



Reproduction on sid/trixie with apt 2.9.33, with a mirror that is
configured (through iptables) to not respond.

root@debian:~# cat /etc/os-release | grep CODENAME
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
root@debian:~# apt --version
apt 2.9.33 (amd64)
root@debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://server.local.net/sid ./

root@debian:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://server.local.net/sid ./ InRelease
Ign:1 http://server.local.net/sid ./ InRelease
Ign:1 http://server.local.net/sid ./ InRelease
Err:1 http://server.local.net/sid ./ InRelease
Could not connect to server.local.net:80 (192.168.0.28), connection
timed out
Unable to connect to server.local.net:http:
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://server.local.net/sid/./InRelease Unable to
connect to server.local.net:http:
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
N: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so. root@debian:~#



In both cases the initial report from apt includes "Ign" prefix, but the
final line is using "Err" prefix to indicate that a timeout for specific transaction has failed.

I'm not sure if this would be good enough for the reporter, so I went
back to apt 1.2 (rev 10aaf7cbf8) from reporter's last e-mail.



root@debian:~# cat /etc/os-release | grep CODENAME
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
root@debian:~# apt --version
apt 1.2 (amd64)
root@debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://server.local.net/10 ./

root@debian:~#
root@debian:~# apt-get update
Err:1 http://server.local.net/10 ./ InRelease
Could not connect to server.local.net:80 (192.168.0.28), connection
timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://server.local.net/10/./InRelease Could not
connect to server.local.net:80 (192.168.0.28), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.



In apt 1.2 there are no lines tagged with "Ign", while current versions
of apt tag some of timed-out downloads with "Ign" (but finally also
using "Err" tag). To me there is no clear conclusion whether this issue
is addressed or not in current versions of apt.

Kamil

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