aptitude update intermittent failure

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:16:06PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:

> Is anyone else experiencing the same or similar intermittent
> problem that I am with 'aptitude update'? [see below]
> 
> Perseverance almost always overcomes it, although sometmes
> the failure will occur elsewhere in the sources list when I
> retry.

It's arguably a bug that it breaks in this way, but it's due to a
misconfiguration:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469

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 - mdz