[Reportbug-maint] Bug#516449: reportbug: reporting build errors takes forever when buildd is down

[Sandro Tosi]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 16:16, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> wrote:
> 2009/2/22 Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>:
>> What would you like to see fixed here? the timeout to be reduced? I
>> dunno if the underlying library allows this; in any case, please
>> clarify your request.
>
> Yes, the timeout should be reduced if reasonably possible and failure
> to connect to the server should be reported. For me reportbug just
> waits for a long time and then continues without any sign of something
> going wrong.

I'm adding a timeout for url retriver to 60 secs.

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