Bug#55991: Doesn't work if only Packages.gz is available

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.16
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/apt-get

Hi,

I used to only mirror Packages.gz, but not Packages, which used to
work, but now I get:

# apt-get update
Reading Package Lists... Done 
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'file: frozen/non-free Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/_debian_dists_frozen_non-free_binary-alpha_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files

with

deb file:/debian frozen main contrib non-free

in /etc/sources.list. (I manually created Packages for main and
contrib, so they work.) If all Packages files are there uncompressed,
everything's fine.

It would be nice if only having Packages.gz would suffice.

	Falk


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux borkum 2.2.14 #2 Mon Jan 10 18:59:45 CET 2000 alpha

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6.1                       2.1.2-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                 1:2.95.2-4 The GNU stdc++ library