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    From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to Andrey Rakhmatullin on Sat Jun 7 23:00:01 2025
    Hi,

    On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 09:08:50PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
    apt-cacher-ng is simply almost dead upstream/unmaintained, having just one release/maintainer upload since 2021 and many open bugs, including several very well known problems affecting many people.

    What are people using instead of apt-cacher-ng if I may ask?

    I've been using it for more than 10 years but the problems I have
    encountered since upgrading to its bookworm version have got a lot
    worse, including memory leaks, segfaults and clients that get stuck
    endlessly after doing an "apt update". I too had got the impression that
    it was basically dead and have been wondering what to replace it with.

    Just a general purpose caching HTTP proxy?

    Thanks,
    Andy

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  • From Andrea Pappacoda@21:1/5 to Andy Smith on Sat Jun 7 23:20:01 2025
    Hi,

    On Sat Jun 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM CEST, Andy Smith wrote:
    On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 09:08:50PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
    apt-cacher-ng is simply almost dead upstream/unmaintained, having just one >> release/maintainer upload since 2021 and many open bugs, including several >> very well known problems affecting many people.

    What are people using instead of apt-cacher-ng if I may ask?

    I've started using squid-deb-proxy [1] after seeing it mentioned in the
    apt documentation [2]. Unfortunately, it got removed from the archive
    a while back [3]. It still works better then apt-cacher-ng for me :)

    [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/squid-deb-proxy
    [2]: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/apt/apt-transport-http.1.en.html
    [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/1081589

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  • From Peter Pentchev@21:1/5 to Andy Smith on Sun Jun 8 03:40:01 2025
    On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 08:38:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
    Hi,

    On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 09:08:50PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
    apt-cacher-ng is simply almost dead upstream/unmaintained, having just one release/maintainer upload since 2021 and many open bugs, including several very well known problems affecting many people.

    What are people using instead of apt-cacher-ng if I may ask?

    I've been using it for more than 10 years but the problems I have
    encountered since upgrading to its bookworm version have got a lot
    worse, including memory leaks, segfaults and clients that get stuck
    endlessly after doing an "apt update". I too had got the impression that
    it was basically dead and have been wondering what to replace it with.

    Just a general purpose caching HTTP proxy?

    I've been using approx for... I don't know, maybe fifteen years or something? It has always worked mostly fine for me, and its files layout makes it easy for me to remove a file or two when I've pushed something to one of my own
    repos so that the clients will notice at once.

    The only problem I've had with it in the past years was that
    the approx-gc tool went away at some point; actually it was just about
    a week ago that I finally decided to go ahead and write my own tool for
    doing that; it has not been released yet (I'm still working out a couple of kinks in a couple of other Rust crates that I wrote specifically for it), but if anyone with a recent Rust compiler (yeah, sorry, even the one in Trixie-to-be won't quite do) wants to give it a go, it's
    at https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/unref-files
    I still have to write some usage documentation, but generally
    `unref-files [-d] [-v] approx find [--delete]` is all that is supported for now.

    G'luck,
    Peter

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  • From Alexandre Detiste@1:229/2 to All on Sat Jun 7 23:30:01 2025
    From: [email protected]

    Hi,

    I became Fedora/Redhat maintainer for this to revive it a bit and have a
    more efficient to feed the Debian nodes.

    It annoys our "security" team at work who sees plain http traffic. (No they don't know what gpg means) In https mode from my understanding there is no caching at all which defeats the purpose.

    I m tempted to put an nginx in front of it or drop the ball and go for the company-approved Nexus.

    Nexus has an open core model and maybe they are trying to do too much
    (.rpm, .deb, pypi...) without enough depth.

    Greetings

    Alexandre

    Le sam. 7 juin 2025, 22:55, Andy Smith <[email protected]> a écrit :

    Hi,

    What are people using instead of apt-cacher-ng if I may ask?

    Just a general purpose caching HTTP proxy?

    Thanks,
    Andy



    <div dir="auto"><div>Hi,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I became Fedora/Redhat maintainer for this to revive it a bit and have a more efficient to feed the Debian nodes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It annoys our &quot;
    security&quot; team at work who sees plain http traffic. (No they don&#39;t know what gpg means) In https mode from my understanding there is no caching at all which defeats the purpose.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I m tempted to put
    an nginx in front of it or drop the ball and go for the company-approved Nexus.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nexus has an open core model and maybe they are trying to do too much (.rpm, .deb, pypi...) without enough depth.</div><div dir=
    "auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Greetings</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Alexandre </div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le sam. 7 juin 2025, 22:55, Andy Smith &lt;<a href="
    mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">[email protected]</a>&gt; a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br><br>
    What are people using instead of apt-cacher-ng if I may ask?<br><br>
    Just a general purpose caching HTTP proxy?<br>

    Thanks,<br>
    Andy<br>

    </blockquote></div></div></div>

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