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Unacceptable follow-up behavior after failures wrt. package fetching/extracting
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It looks as if dub doesn't try to re-fetch/extract a package the next time after a previous run failed to fetch/extract that package. We've seen this behavior in at least 2 cases at work:
- A package couldn't be fetched because a private dub registry wasn't set up yet. dub still created the target dir in
~/dub/packages/…incl. lockfile as part of the failed run. So the next time, it assumed the package was available locally and didn't try to actually fetch it. - An annoying Antivirus led to sporadic package zip extraction failures ('File locked by another process'). dub extracts into the final directory, so next time, dub used that half-extracted directory with missing files, leading to debugging headache.