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Bug#737037: net-retriever: support for Packages.xz



Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> (2014-01-29):
> 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).

I've tried setting mirror/udeb/suite=sid and patching net-retriever.
wireshark says I'm getting Packages.xz on ftp.fr.debian.org, and
Packages.gz on my local mirror (see debmirror's #737057). With
mirror/udeb/suite=testing, I'm only getting Packages.gz on both
locations since it's not advertised in Release files yet.

So I guess we're good to go, and I uploaded 1.38 with this change:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/net-retriever.git;a=commitdiff;h=288235d39bc2039853058f6bb72fe69f3cf4bd99

Mraw,
KiBi.

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