Bug#742688: Plugins cannot be updated/installed

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

severity 742688 minor
thanks

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 01:32:57PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > Package: qgis
> > Version: 2.2.0-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Once updated to the current sid version, I'm not more able to update current
> > (python) plugins to new versions or install new plugins. That renders the program quite
> > unusable in many situations. It suggests verifying permissions on
> > $HOME/.qgis2/plugins/<directory> and other silly checks.
> > 
> 
> Apparently http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml is currently a bit slow 
> and qgis soon gives up download. It seems to me that the initial timeout needs
> adjustment under these conditions.
> 

Ok, the plugins server have been moved to a new host and download now proceed
with decent timing. That was a transient status. For sure a better diagnostic
would be appreciated as well as more redundancy in support infrastructure.

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Francesco P. Lovergine