Comment 1 for bug 789219

just for the record, I sent the following suggested patch to the upstream jigit developer, requesting that it be added to upstream so we could drop this ubuntu delta.

--- a/jigit
+++ b/jigit
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ APT_CACHE=/var/cache/apt/archives
 WGET_OPTS="-q --passive-ftp --no-directories --no-verbose"
 HOST="http://people.debian.org/~93sam/"

+VENDOR=`command -v lsb_release >/dev/null && lsb_release --id --short` ||
+ VENDOR=`command -v dpkg-vendor >/dev/null && dpkg-vendor --query vendor`
+
+case "$VENDOR" in
+ Ubuntu) HOST="http://releases.ubuntu.com";;
+esac
+
 if [ -e /etc/jigit.conf ] ; then
     . /etc/jigit.conf
 fi