I'd have to defer to people who know apt better, but I'm afraid it's
very unlikely for this to be backported; the changes to apt are AIUI
quite extensive and it's a critical part of the system that mustn't
fail.
I've made a note to chase up the mirroring scripts used for the AWS EC2
mirrors to see if there's anything easy that can be done there to at
least improve the situation a bit.
I'd have to defer to people who know apt better, but I'm afraid it's
very unlikely for this to be backported; the changes to apt are AIUI
quite extensive and it's a critical part of the system that mustn't
fail.
I've made a note to chase up the mirroring scripts used for the AWS EC2
mirrors to see if there's anything easy that can be done there to at
least improve the situation a bit.