A connection problem should not leave a computer in an unusable state. So, this is certainly a bug. The question is, who's bug is it? I would say it could only be apt's responsibility.
One possible solution... Since apt can't know for sure that the official Packages.gz (as it is in the repository) is not corrupt, it can't guarantee that another re-download of the archive won't result in the same issue over and over. So, perhaps apt could move the original archive to another location (e.g., Packages.gz.bak), re-download the archive from the repository, and compare the two; if they are identical, it's likely a problem with the repository, and apt could give up with a message indicating so. That'd be some work though... -- gzip error when updating packages https://launchpad.net/bugs/59353 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
