Comment 28 for bug 314212

Thanks, found the package.py in Bazaar. The problematic 2-second timeout was introduced in rev 305 in the end of November 2008. Before the rev 305 there was no timeout at all.

Could anyone with knowledge of python-apt test increasing the timeout in package.py from 2 to 10 seconds and comment on this fix ?

Here is when the 2-second timeout appeared first:
merged from the consolidation-bracn (with some modificatins) // Michael Vogt 2008-11-24
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/python-apt/python-apt--mvo/annotate/head%3A/apt/package.py

=== modified file 'apt/package.py'
--- apt/package.py 2008-09-18 12:58:03 +0000
+++ apt/package.py 2008-11-24 13:46:48 +0000
@@ -19,10 +19,18 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
 # USA

-import apt_pkg
+import httplib
 import sys
 import random
+import re
+import socket
 import string
+import urllib2
+
+import apt_pkg
+
+# Set a timeout for the changelog download
+socket.setdefaulttimeout(2)

 #from gettext import gettext as _
 import gettext