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Subject: Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: Error also appears in 0.1.44 and 0.1.42, look like a server problem
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:40:02 +0100
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Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.44
Followup-For: Bug #1125030

Hi,

I see the same problem appearing with 0.1.42 and 0.1.44.  Two older
unstable VMs that I hadn't run for a couple months, so a ton of
packages need updating.  But both bring up this error consistently, 
but also not always... I can run 20 apt-listbugs in a row, not a
problem, and the 21st fails, and then the next attempt the 7th fails,
or the 3rd.

So, my money is on a problem with the actual SOAP server/interface.

I also just now in trying to add to this bug thread encountered
problems with the BTS.  Namely, a 503 unavailable error.  In a soap
call inside debianbts.py.   Just once, but it supports the "it's a
server problem" hypothesis.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii  apt             2.9.21
ii  distro-info     1.12
ii  ruby            1:3.1
ii  ruby-debian     0.3.10+b9
ii  ruby-gettext    3.4.9-1
ii  ruby-soap4r     2.0.5-8
ii  ruby-unicode    0.4.4.4-1+b5
ii  ruby-xmlparser  0.7.3-4+b4

Versions of packages apt-listbugs recommends:
ii  ruby-httpclient     2.8.3+git20211122.4658227-1
pn  ruby-sys-proctable  <none>

Versions of packages apt-listbugs suggests:
ii  chromium [www-browser]  131.0.6778.204-1
ii  elinks [www-browser]    0.18.0-1
ii  firefox [www-browser]   106.0-1
ii  lynx [www-browser]      2.9.2-1
ii  reportbug               13.0.2
ii  sensible-utils          0.0.24
ii  w3m [www-browser]       0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
ii  xdg-utils               1.2.1-2

-- no debconf information