[Bug 1876035] Re: Automatically retry downloads on failures

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This bug was fixed in the package apt - 2.3.3

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apt (2.3.3) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * Allow superfluous commas in build-dependency lines
  * Mark only provides from protected versioned kernel packages
  * Count uninstallable packages in "not upgraded" (Closes: #981535)
  * Reexplore providers of marked packages if some didn't satisfy before
  * Call MarkAndSweep only manually in apt-get for autoremove
  * Store versioned kernel package detectors in d-pointer

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * Fix a typo in json-hooks-protocol.md

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Temporarily Revert "2.3-only: Warn that the 0.1 protocol is deprecated"

 -- Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org>  Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:43:19
+0200

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Automatically retry downloads on failures

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi,

  We operate archive.ubuntu.com as well as mirrors of it in various
  places. We're getting reports of various CI/CD jobs failing. Sometimes
  due to routing issues, issues with overloaded servers/VMs hosting
  archive, etc.

  Any chance we can make '-o Acquire::Retries=3' the default for 'apt-
  get update/install/dist-upgrade'? Preferably with a randomised skew
  between retries.

  Also, any chance of having apt-get retry with different IPs/hosts
  returned from the DNS lookup? (e.g. for archive.ubuntu.com -
  91.189.88.142, 91.189.88.152, ...).

  Thanks.

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