There ended up being an issue with the proposed change and successful downloads being rerun if there is a failure of a different hook file. This was resolved in r891 of update-notifier and should be included in the SRU.
revno: 891 committer: Brian Murray <br...@canonical.com> branch nick: trunk timestamp: Fri 2016-10-07 16:11:57 -0700 message: * data/package-data-downloader: - a stampfile is an indication of success, so don't try to process it again. * tests/test_package-data-downloader.py: - add a test for the case where there are multiple hook files and only one of them has failed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1621629 Title: package-data-downloader fails to process download requests To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1621629/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs