diff --git a/news/5270.bugfix b/news/5270.bugfix
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+Handle `requests.exceptions.RetryError` raised in `PackageFinder` that was
+causing pip to fail silently when some indexes were unreachable.
diff --git a/news/5483.bugfix b/news/5483.bugfix
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+Handle `requests.exceptions.RetryError` raised in `PackageFinder` that was
+causing pip to fail silently when some indexes were unreachable.