Bug#316337: apt-get update uses bzip on Packages.gz when no .bz2 is available

[Jan De Luyck <jan-bugs@kcore.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.38
Severity: important

When running apt-get update on the sources below, I get the following problem:

Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/../project/experimental/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)

Which states that apt tried to use bzip2 on a .gz file. The Packages.gz file is okay when downloaded manually and gunzipped.

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Get "";
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
APT::GPGV "";
APT::GPGV::TrustedKeyring "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
Acquire "";
Acquire::Retries "10";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main non-free contrib

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.0.0-11   GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.6-7    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information