[Xapian-discuss] Xapian Debian/Ubuntu repositiories does not work (APT does not handle redirects!)

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2008-02-15 16:22:44 +0000, James Aylett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:30:43AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> > This is the second problem which this new redirect has caused, and
> > expecting everyone to update their sources.list is rather an imposition,
> > so I think we should probably remove it (for now at least) and return to
> > www.xapian.org working as it used to.
> 
> Changed, very grudgingly. apt can't handle redirects? Jesus, we'll be
> finding it can't handle dependencies properly next. Oh wait, that's
> already true.

we just had the same problem with apt4rpm. the official answer was that
an admin could redirect users to malicious servers if apt would support
redirects. what a false sense of security.

    darix

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