Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 Severity: wishlist It would be really nice if dpkg would try a few times to complete downloading the Packages.gz files, a'la wget, rather than give up after the first timeout. My slow modem connection often needs downloads to be coaxed in that manner, and even on nearby mirrors I have a hard time getting a complete Packages.gz file for unstable/main. Or, barring that, perhaps it could take in user-supplied Packages.gz files to be associated with the particular package sites, so that one could manually coax the download, though automatic retry and continue would be much nicer, obviously.
-- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux trikuare 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i686 Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-7 The GNU stdc++ library
