On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: > it's really unclear how you get from the first to the second. What's the > criterion for splitting it that way? Why can't apt just deal with 2 fields? Everybody does it differently unfortunately. The criteria is that the concatination of the last two and the word Packages.gz should locate the package file and that the concatination of the first and a File: line in the Package file should locate the .deb Jason