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

[Marcin Kasperski]

James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> writes:

> 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.
>
> \end{frustration}
>
> J

Well, feel free to express your comments here (note bug date too):

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=79002

or maybe here:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/apt/+bug/18645


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