Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file

[TJ]

Binary package hint: apt-cacher

apt-cacher does not support update-manager fetching the changelog and NEWS entries. Sniffing the network packets shows:

No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
      4 0.003004 10.254.251.51 10.254.251.2 HTTP GET http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/q/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm_0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu6/NEWS.Debian HTTP/1.1
     11 0.070377 10.254.251.2 10.254.251.51 HTTP HTTP/1.1 403 Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file: NEWS.Debian
     18 0.074897 10.254.251.51 10.254.251.2 HTTP GET http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/q/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm_0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu6/changelog HTTP/1.1 [Packet size limited during capture]
     27 0.161124 10.254.251.2 10.254.251.51 HTTP HTTP/1.1 403 Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file: changelog

[TJ (tj)]

apt-cacher (1.6.10ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Support changelog and NEWS files for update-manager (LP: #561902)

 -- TJ <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:45:00 +0100

[TJ (tj)]

Revised patch that also supports Debug Symbol packages (*.ddeb)

apt-cacher (1.6.10ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Support debug symbol packages, changelog and NEWS and files for update-manager (LP: #561902)

 -- TJ <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:45:00 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-cacher - 1.6.10ubuntu2

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apt-cacher (1.6.10ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Support debug symbol packages, changelog and NEWS and files for update-manager (LP: #561902)
 -- TJ <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:45:00 +0100