Bug#1890: dselect update from packages.gz

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Erick Branderhorst wrote:
> I don't know if this is a bug because I don't know if the update    
> utility supports updating from a gzipd packages file.?  I thought I       
> could do an update of the packages information with a gzipd packages
> file but it didn't seem to work quite well:                               

I believe this is supported properly in more recent versions of dpkg -
the dselect disk access methods will uncompress compressed Packages
files.

I'm closing this bug report.

Ian.