[Bug 876298] Re: [FFe] [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash, msttcorefonts) not being available.

[Steve Langasek]

** Description changed:

  At the 11.10 release archive.canonical.com collapsed under heavy load
  and started returning 503 errors.  This caused the flash package to be
  unable to grab its payload and thus caused the package to fail, which in
  turn caused the installation to fail.
  
  The current plan is to add metadata to a package where it can add a URL
  to retrieve its data, so ubiquity and apt-get --download-only can cache
  it.  We also need a way to queue up package installation post-install,
  for when we commit to installing flash but cannot do so due to network
  issues, or when the user wishes to have full language support post-
  install.
+ 
+ This change requires a freeze exception for precise, as it involves
+ adding new features to update-notifier and significant reworking of the
+ maintainer scripts for the affected packages.  It also introduces new UI
+ components; however these UI components are only visible in the event of
+ a failure, so I don't think we should block on UI freeze for making this
+ change given the significant benefit to the install experience when a
+ download fails.

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Title:
  [FFe] [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash,
  msttcorefonts) not being available.

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