depends: Fallback mechanism may not be working properly #7627
Description
Today there was an issue with a corrupted boost download:
<MarcoFalke> of which: Fetching boost...
<MarcoFalke> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
<MarcoFalke> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
<MarcoFalke> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
<MarcoFalke> 100 639 100 639 0 0 2017 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2017
<MarcoFalke> sha256sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
No indication of even trying the fallback download.
I already suspected this before with the fukushi.org certificate issue with libqrcode. The download was failing due to a certificate issue and it wasn't even trying our fallback. At least it didn't break with the wget -> curl change :-)