Bug#760473: Further analysis and a patch

2015-08-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:17:56AM +, Lennart Weller wrote: > August 11 2015 7:54 PM, "David Kalnischkies" wrote: > > apt does not link indirectly to libnettle nor to libcurl-gnutls. The > > optinal apt-transport-https does. That is a big difference for > > bootstrappers as it means they can i

Bug#760473: Further analysis and a patch

2015-08-18 Thread Lennart Weller
August 11 2015 7:54 PM, "David Kalnischkies" wrote: > apt does not link indirectly to libnettle nor to libcurl-gnutls. The > optinal apt-transport-https does. That is a big difference for > bootstrappers as it means they can ignore -https for the time being > until the base system is up and runnin

Bug#760473: Further analysis and a patch

2015-08-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
Control: tags -1 - patch Hi, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:01:08AM +0100, Weller wrote: > Replacing the hashing methods with the ones provided by libnettle, which > apt is already indirectly linked against via libcurl-gnutls resulted in a apt does not link indirectly to libnettle nor to libcurl-gnu

Bug#760473: Further analysis and a patch

2015-01-30 Thread Weller
After spending some time with this issue recently I discovered the root of the problem. Unlike I assumed before it has nothing to do with the way the http method is structured but solely stems from the way hashing is done in apt, sequential and in the same thread as the download. Replacing the has