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Bug#874766: marked as done (apt-p2p: Use of /var/lib/apt/lists internals)

Your message dated Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:21:57 +0000
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and subject line Bug#885564: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #874766,
regarding apt-p2p: Use of /var/lib/apt/lists internals
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt-p2p
Severity: important
User: deity@lists.debian.org
Usertags: apt-internals

Dear Maintainer of apt-p2p,

your package appears to be relying on the internal layout of /var/lib/apt/lists
and the location of that directory (which is configurable), as it matches the
following regular expression (and a quick check did not rule out a false positive):

    /var/lib/apt/lists/.*(Packages|Sources)

For the matches found, you can have a quick look at:

    https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fapt%2Flists%2F.*%28Packages%7CSources%29+package%3Aapt-p2p

APT since some time supports compressed indices using the option
`Acquire::gzipIndexes`. Starting with 1.2, index files are stored
with lz4 compression if that option is enabled, providing significant
space savings at low overhead.

Some platforms and users might already have these indexes compressed by default
in order to save space, and your package might not be working for them.

Instead of relying on internals, please use the interfaces provided by
APT 1.1 and newer:

## Command-line interfaces
In order to get paths to index files, please use:

    apt-get indextargets --format '$(FILENAME)' "Created-By: $creator"

where `$creator` is `Packages`, `Sources`, `Contents-deb`, `Contents-udeb`,
or `Contents-deb-legacy`, depending on which files you need.

To read the file, use

    /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper cat-file <FILE>...

This transparently handles compression supported by apt.

## C++ interface
When reading files in C++, you might want to use APT's FileFd class. It
provides the same transparent compression support as `apt-helper cat-file`
(if turned on).

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.1.8+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package apt-p2p has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/885564

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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