Bug#859496: /usr/bin/debsnap: debsnap cannot download binary packages

[James McCoy]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 01:46:43PM +0300, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> I'm trying to download a binary package with debsnap but it fails all
> the time.

Well, not all the time.  That's why it happens to work when you try it
manually.

> $ debsnap -a amd64 xterm
> debsnap: fatal error at line 271:
> Unable to retrieve information for xterm from http://snapshot.debian.org/mr/binary/xterm/.

snapshot.debian.org is returning 503s periodically, which is why this
isn't reliably working.  debsnap just poorly reports the errors it
encounters, which should be fixed.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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