Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.82 Owner: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> Control: block 818463 by -1 debootstrap should support archives that only provide Packages.xz. I'll try to take a look at implementing this soon. From a quick glance it shouldn't be too difficult given several compression formats are already supported (bz2, gz, uncompressed). Ansgar