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 07:42:54AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.6.38
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > When running apt-get update on the sources below, I get the following problem:
> > 
> > Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/../project/experimental/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> > 
> > Which states that apt tried to use bzip2 on a .gz file. The Packages.gz file is okay when downloaded manually and gunzipped.
> 
> That's odd...it may be that the error message is misleading, though.  Did
> you try downloading the .bz2 file and testing it?

It was indeed a incorrectly reported error message (the problem is
real, but the error message is misleading). I fixed that in my
apt--fixes--0 branch (patch-12). Sorry for that.

Cheers,
 Michael

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