Bug#788362: security-tracker switched to ftp.de.d.o as httpredir returns 404 when it shouldnt

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 10 June 2015 at 21:37, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> httpredir as used for security-tracker.debian.org has some problems updating
>> some Packages files, _sometimes_. IOW: i've seen this working on my laptop,
>> but not when deployed on soler. The url exists... (or rather it does as Packages.gz,
>> so it seems apt-update-file has some magic here too...) but it repeatedly
>> failed like this. (or similar for other targets too)
>
> The URL does not exist but Apache's configuration make it exist on most
> mirrors:

That's correct. The uncompressed versions of the files have not been
publicly available for years, so the fix is indeed to use the .gz,
.bz2, or .xz version - only .gz being available for all releases.

Moreover, if a request for a Packages file, uncompressed, from the
redirector does not always return 404 it is a bug that I'd like to
know about. I.e. it has code that explicitly 404s Packages files,
though Sources aren't.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net