SM> You don't show to the end of the log. Jigdo will switch to grabbing
SM> missing files from snapshot.d.o once it has finished with all the
SM> files it can find on the mirrors you've told it about.

GREAT: BUT:

The user will start seeing these 404s interspersed with the 200s and
think:

"Yup, just as I suspected. 'Jigdo not being further developed' 'FAQ not
touched since 2005'...

So, just as I did, they hit ^C and delete all of what has been half
downloaded, and purge the jigdo-lite .deb from their system.

Therefore: You need to reassure the user, before he gets started, that
interspersed 404s are normal, and it will get the rest from
snapshot.d.o.

So you need to say it on the jigdo-lite man page, on the www.debian.org
pages and most of all, right next to each 404 as they fly by!

Else who will sit there downloading hundreds of megabytes and watching
404s go by. Nobody will wait till the end thinking that some miracle
will happen. Unless you make sure they know that it will. Thanks.

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