Bug#780109: hyperspec: installation cannot be cancelled when ftp.lispworks.com is down

[Attila Lendvai]

Package: hyperspec
Version: 1.30+nmu2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

at the time of writing (ftp.) lispworks.com is down, therefore wget in the post install script retries forever, and C-c from within the synaptic GUI does not break the wget loop.

killing the parent (IIRC perl) process using htop restored synaptic to a ready state, and the hyperspec package was marked as installed (which it wasn't).

thank you for your time,

 - attila

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages hyperspec depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.55
ii  wget                   1.16-1

hyperspec recommends no packages.

hyperspec suggests no packages.

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