[ Cc ftpmaster@ ] On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:51:49PM -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: > Would it be possible to generate Packages.xz files for jessie-backports? > > Aside from the "xz is better" factor, it appears that httpredir now > automatically returns a 404[*] for any Packages.bz2 under dists/jessie*. > This can result in unnecessary HTTP traffic (especially since apt > appears to fall back to xz, then lzma, then gz) as well as superfluous > error messages. > > [*] https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector/commit/134200f5ca97cc3a9933305cfd053b2a34cb4eb0 > > [I'm not subscribed to this list, so please CC me if needed. Thanks!] That retry behavior for something that isn't in the Release file is indeed annoying. Added ftp-master to Cc because they are the ones maintaining the archive, but this request sounds sensible to me. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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