Bug#737037: net-retriever: support for Packages.xz
Package: net-retriever
Version: 1.37
Severity: wishlist
net-retriever currently only tries to obtain gzip or uncompressed
versions of the Packages indices. We recently introduced Packages.xz
in the main archive (currently only for unstable, soon also for
jessie). It would be nice if net-retriever would support them too (and
maybe prefer it over gzip as xz compresses better).
There are also Packages.bz2 indices, but at least for the main archive
we plan to slowly phase these out.
Ansgar
Reply to: