Bug#316337: apt-get update uses bzip on Packages.gz when no .bz2 is available

[Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:56:24AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:47:37PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 June 2005 16:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > That's odd...it may be that the error message is misleading, though.  Did
> > > you try downloading the .bz2 file and testing it?
> > 
> > Well, fact is, there is no .bz2 file. Only a .gz.
> 
> It certainly works with other archives which have only Packages.gz...I
> wonder what's weird about experimental.

I can reproduce it here. Interesstingly enough it works fine with the
ftp.debian.org server. And the ftp.nl.debian.org server seems to work
sometimes too and it fails sometimes. I wonder if apt sometimes does
not detect that no Packages.bz2 file is available on the server (or if
the server doesn't tell that in a reliable way).

I ran it with:
apt-get update -o Debug::Acquire::ftp=true and -o Debug::pkgAcquire=true
 
but so far I haven't found anything interessting :/

Cheers,
 Michael

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