diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/RepoUpdater.java b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/RepoUpdater.java
index e1fd27d9c..f38c4c3df 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/RepoUpdater.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/RepoUpdater.java
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ public class RepoUpdater {
                 repo.getCredentials()
             );
             downloader.setCacheTag(repo.lastetag);
-            downloader.downloadUninterrupted();
+            downloader.download();
 
             if (downloader.isCached()) {
                 // The index is unchanged since we last read it. We just mark
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ public class RepoUpdater {
             }
 
             throw new UpdateException(repo, "Error getting index file", e);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            // ignored if canceled, the local database just won't be updated
+            e.printStackTrace();
         }
         return downloader;
     }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/net/Downloader.java b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/net/Downloader.java
index b66dcc7ec..e66b793ad 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/net/Downloader.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/net/Downloader.java
@@ -91,20 +91,6 @@ public abstract class Downloader {
 
     protected abstract int totalDownloadSize();
 
-    /**
-     * Helper function for synchronous downloads (i.e. those *not* using AsyncDownloadWrapper),
-     * which don't really want to bother dealing with an InterruptedException.
-     * The InterruptedException thrown from download() is there to enable cancelling asynchronous
-     * downloads, but regular synchronous downloads cannot be cancelled because download() will
-     * block until completed.
-     * @throws IOException
-     */
-    public void downloadUninterrupted() throws IOException {
-        try {
-            download();
-        } catch (InterruptedException ignored) { }
-    }
-
     public abstract void download() throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
     public abstract boolean isCached();