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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 17:49:57 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] > apt-listbugs sometimes gives the following error: > > Retrieving bug reports... 0% Fail > E: HTTP GET failed > Retry downloading bug information? [Y/n] Hello Vincent, thanks for your bug report! I have seen that error too, in recent times, but only very sporadically. > > It is not clear whether the error comes from the package itself or > from the remote side, but in the latter case, the reason should be > output (e.g. HTTP error code). The error message is produced by apt-listbugs, when it catches an exception of class SOAP::HTTPStreamError, raised by the SOAP library. I am convinced that it depends on a communication error with the server (the Debian BTS). I can try to modify apt-listbugs, so that it prints some more information about the exception on stderr, but I am not sure it can be done easily enough. Moreover, since, as I said, the error shows up very sporadically, it's hard to test. Do you have a reliable way to artificially obtain that error? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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