[Bug 1740114] Re: apt-get update hangs forever trying to fetch data via a non-working IPv6 connection

[David Kalnischkies]

Thanks for your well written bugreport and a very happy Christmas to
you, too, sir. Please proceed to the checkout counter and accept a full
refund and our sincere apologizes.

Unfortunately, I am neither a ubuntu developer, nor do I drink kool-aid
apart from the seasonal appropriate hot cocoa, but as an APT developer
who is paid splendidly by the many thanks of people like you for
investing his freetime it feels like my obligation to pay back some
times:

Its not our fault that you misconfigured your system and throw money out
the window. APT wouldn't be using IPv6 if your system wouldn't say that
it is available. Talk to your ISP: You pay them a lot for your router
and network usage presumably. Enough to make non-broken IPv6 available
to you – you will need it sooner than later.

APT also performs fallbacks – not quickly, we are working on that, but
it eventually does: Too quick and naive a fallback and we break for
systems which have high latency, but otherwise working configuration.
So, as this "bugreport" adds exactly nothing to improve the situation
expect perhaps "helping" that I and other volunteers are never going to
look at bugs written by "fucking insane morons" I am closing as
"opinion" for fucks sake.

P.S.: apt isn't launchpad either. These guys likely wouldn't appreciate
the nice ton of your message either, through.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

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Title:
  apt-get update hangs forever trying to fetch data via a non-working
  IPv6 connection

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  I kindly request that Ubuntu developers stop drinking so much Kool-Aid
  and realize not everyone in this world has a working IPv6 connection
  and an IPv4 fallback must be used in case an IPv6 request takes too
  much time:

  # time apt-get update
  Hit:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                   
  Hit:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                                                                           
  Hit:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                                                                         
  0% [Connecting to security.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1560:8001::11)]^C                        

  real	6m10.351s
  user	0m0.056s
  sys	0m0.020s

  What the fuck??? My server doesn't have a working IPv6 connection. The
  apt-get update command apparently never completes. Could there be a
  sane timeout before apt switches to IPv4?

  Why the Internet is full of requests how to disable IPv6 support in
  apt when it takes a few seconds to fix this problem in the first
  place?

  Why the fuck there are such crucial bugs in the first place? Could you
  for fuck's sake make your software usable and bugs-free before trying
  to add a ton of barely working new shiny features?

  Of course, there's this nice thread

  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9940/convince-apt-get-not-to-
  use-ipv6-method

  which fixes this issue, but why the fuck am I supposed to start
  googling from the get go after installing a brand new release of
  Ubuntu

  lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
  Release:	16.04
  Codename:	xenial

  Also why the fuck are you sending a password reset URL which uses
  plain HTTP? Are you fucking insane?

  What the fuck is this shit?

  http://login.launchpad.net/token/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/+resetpassword/example@example.com

  What the fuck is wrong with you people?

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