Spoke a bit too soon: on the first attempt after updating the package index, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" failed to download the packages, with the same 503 error.
... Fetched 17.0 MB in 8s (2,216 kB/s) E: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/netplan.io/netplan.io_0.105-0ubuntu2%7e22.04.3_amd64.deb 503 Connection closed, check DlMaxRetries [IP: 127.0.0.1 3142] E: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/netplan.io/libnetplan0_0.105-0ubuntu2%7e22.04.3_amd64.deb 503 Connection closed, check DlMaxRetries [IP: 127.0.0.1 3142] ...
But on second attempt it was fine.
So it seems to be intermittent, as described in the Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031283
Spoke a bit too soon: on the first attempt after updating the package index, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" failed to download the packages, with the same 503 error.
... gb.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ pool/main/ n/netplan. io/netplan. io_0.105- 0ubuntu2% 7e22.04. 3_amd64. deb 503 Connection closed, check DlMaxRetries [IP: 127.0.0.1 3142] gb.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ pool/main/ n/netplan. io/libnetplan0_ 0.105-0ubuntu2% 7e22.04. 3_amd64. deb 503 Connection closed, check DlMaxRetries [IP: 127.0.0.1 3142]
Fetched 17.0 MB in 8s (2,216 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://
E: Failed to fetch http://
...
But on second attempt it was fine.
So it seems to be intermittent, as described in the Debian bug: /bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 1031283
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