bug#21032: package.el acts pecularly

[Vaidheeswaran C]

On Saturday 11 July 2015 03:51 PM, Artur Malabarba wrote:
>> I think package.el should offer to remove (or blacklist)
>> > "misconfigured" archives or "disappeared" archives.  At the minimum,
>> > it shouldn't throw 404-s in user's face.
> Can we differentiate them from an archive that is temporarily down?
> 

We can definitely improve upon how the error gets reported.

    Error contacting: http://blah.blah.blah:/archive-contents
    error in process filter: peculiar error: 404 [2 times]

To the user, the first error gives sufficient hint for futher action.
I wonder what the second error says which the first error already
doesn't say.  Or may be there is indeed two errors and not one error
as I surmise.

ps: I wonder what contacting a file means :-P.