Package: netselect-apt Version: 0.3.ds1-26 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to use netselect-apt on a clean system in order to select the best mirror for my system. However, it would not work. I received an error along the lines of (sorry for the paraphrasing but I do not have the system in question in front of me) "No valid servers for protocol ." I ran it with debug on (-d) and the issue became apparent: It was trying to test that the servers were usable by using curl! It continued to try to do this no matter what switch I tried. I didn't have curl installed, and the package merely "recommends" curl, but does not depend on it. As far as I could tell however, there's no way to get it working *without* curl installed. I feel like curl should be listed as a dep, not a rec, unless I'm completely off base and there's a way to get it to go through without curl. Thanks for your attention to this, Dylan J. Morrison -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.18.5-x86_64-linode52 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
