-"pipeline. Previous APT versions had a default of 10 for this setting, but "
-"the default value is now 0 (= disabled) to avoid problems with the ever-"
-"growing amount of webservers and proxies which choose to not conform to the "
-"HTTP/1.1 specification."
+"pipeline. APT tries to detect and workaround misbehaving webservers and "
+"proxies at runtime, but if you know that yours does not conform to the "
+"HTTP/1.1 specification pipelining can be disabled by setting the value to 0. "
+"It is enabled by default with the value 10."