Bug#700368: debootstrap does not work with local file mirror (apt-move)

[Darshaka Pathirana <dpat@syn-net.org>]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.44
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

1. I created a local mirror with apt-move:

I changed the following settings in /etc/apt-move.conf:

LOCALDIR=/opt/apt-mirror
DIST=wheezy
COPYONLY=yes

and did

% apt-move update

2. I then tried to use the local file mirror with debootstrap

% debootstrap --arch amd64 --no-check-gpg wheezy /mnt/test file:///opt/apt-mirror

I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Failed to retrieve InRelease
I: Retrieving Release
E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-amd64/Packages

The Release file in /opt/apt-mirror/dists/wheezy/Release looks like:

Origin: APT-Move
Label: APT-Move
Suite: wheezy
Codename: unknown
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:04:48 UTC
Architectures: amd64
Components: main contrib non-free
Description: unknown
MD5Sum:
 c44087a2947345e53ad77acb6e1e1137          1420853 main/binary-amd64/Packages
 b11ea469384e3eb1768254cd30688b6f           365497 main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 db1ad326cd5b23c672799f9b9c8016c8               85 main/binary-amd64/Release
 b4b5d9fa3fe62a17a7c03ccb466e4c26             2704 contrib/binary-amd64/Packages
 afc4118e90e063a0301b5c75f3e9eaf6             1326 contrib/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 eb7767fb225316c2a5df26d7a164dc44               88 contrib/binary-amd64/Release
 aa594c3e1a4776480b0dbcbcd7992098             2883 non-free/binary-amd64/Packages
 e342c7267a808dd9fe8aff31b9829762             1088 non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 d59693d446c475da6670bb7638f5ca6a               89 non-free/binary-amd64/Release
SHA1:
 2126d979f9c8b1e70bb0186c04014c40a6ee9531          1420853 main/binary-amd64/Packages
 c7063cef7a381cc2770f93423624876d48108191           365497 main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 7df7ab3097cd1125839cc2839ceb5273d315f8c5               85 main/binary-amd64/Release
 c7f5871575136c4cb96c9147667c963c95f99008             2704 contrib/binary-amd64/Packages
 5595ffcba40fb3a81becbb4e35a841869efe49ef             1326 contrib/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 b74f8d11da5ca2afc19230017c9f7b96c7b0e379               88 contrib/binary-amd64/Release
 1d7fb1ac7d6baeee5a373ce0fe7d71a34722dc5b             2883 non-free/binary-amd64/Packages
 9c05cdfb4461589d30dca13a578a86b83dda7ffb             1088 non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 edec9eeb9c55dd3f999cc6abdd50615ec4129c1a               89 non-free/binary-amd64/Release

I even tried signing the local apt repository and used the --keyring
option to verify the signature but it still failed.

Did I do something wrong or does anyone know what the problem is?
Can I provide any additional information to get this problem solved?

Thank you for any assistance.

Regards,
 - Darsha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget  1.13.4-3

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2012.4
ii  gnupg                   1.4.12-7

debootstrap suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information