[Bug 1003042] Re: Quantal Package List Contains Sources That Cannot Be Downloaded

[Aisano]

Maybe my problem (with Precise) is not related to this one. After nine days without a successful update I changed my update server from de.archive.ubuntu.com to eo.archive.ubuntu.com. Now everything works fine again.
Interestingly, when I display http://eo.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/ I see the same as with the German (de) server: no "Sources", only "Sources.bz2" and "Sources.gz". Still, here it works.
I hope I am not depending on some legacy functionality that is going to go away on one server by one. It seems reasonable to download compressed information, and I have always wondered why the process of updating Update Manager's data takes so long. I think it could benefit a great deal from using compressed packages.

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Title:
  Quantal Package List Contains Sources That Cannot Be Downloaded

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Using either the update-manager  or aptitude some of the pachages
  cannot be found or dowloaded.  This seems to also prevent the Ubuntu
  Software Center from laoding properly.

  W:Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found
  , W:Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found
  , W:Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found
  , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.7-generic 3.4.0
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue May 22 11:02:21 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
  GsettingsChanges:
   com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
   com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1337709452
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 500
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120522)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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