netselect-apt not working

[ablonewolf]

Suddenly, in my MX-Linux 19.4, netselect-apt is not working properly.
This is what I type in the terminal.
sudo netselect-apt
And the output I get is given below.
`Using distribution stable.
Retrieving the list of mirrors from www.debian.org...

URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy
--2021-06-07 10:00:38-- https://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full
Resolving www.debian.org (www.debian.org)... 149.20.4.15, 128.31.0.62, 130.89.148.77, ...
Connecting to www.debian.org (www.debian.org)|149.20.4.15|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 129505 (126K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/netselect-apt.LNOZdD’

/tmp/netselect-apt.LNOZdD 100%[=======================================================================================================>] 126.47K 172KB/s in 0.7s

2021-06-07 10:00:40 (172 KB/s) - ‘/tmp/netselect-apt.LNOZdD’ saved [129505/129505]

Choosing a main Debian mirror using netselect.
netselect-apt was unable to obtain a list of valid hosts from
the file downloaded from the url 'http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full'.
This might happen because of any of the following reasons:

• there was an error in the file
• the file is not in the format netselect-apt expected
• there is a bug in netselect-apt
  Please manually check the file. If you believe its contents are correct, file
  a bug (hint: use 'reportbug') against netselect-apt and provide the file as
  well as the output generated by the program (hint: use 'script').
  `
  I am unable to find out why is this happening. Anyone knows why?

[DhimanAbhimanyu]

This issue was fixed in Debian by modifying a line in the Perl script in the function run_netselect.

$ diff -wu netselect-apt which netselect-apt
--- netselect-apt 2021-08-14 08:10:21.211144475 +0530
+++ /usr/bin/netselect-apt 2016-06-15 05:49:23.000000000 +0530
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
next if $_ !~ /Site:/;
if( ( /Includes architectures:.+'"$arch"'.+/i ||
$_ !~ /Includes architectures:/ ) &&

•                                           m@'"$SEARCH"':.*<a.*?href="('"$PROTO"'://.*?)">@i && $my_country == 1
  

•                                           m@<br>'"$SEARCH"':.*<a.*?href="('"$PROTO"'://.*?)">@i && $my_country == 1
                                    ){
                                    print("$1\n");
                            }}')
  

netselect-apt.txt

[ablonewolf]

Will you please note that in detail about how to solve the issue I addressed? Unfortunately, I cannot make out about your instructions.

[ablonewolf]

Oh yes, thank you. I got what you meant. Thanks for providing the text file. Means a lot.

[TriMoon]

@ArkaBhuiyan did you also try with my fork i made a long time ago?

[ablonewolf]

No, I just saw it for the first time.