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

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:06:31PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:

> On Thursday 30 June 2005 17:56, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:47:37PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 June 2005 16:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > That's odd...it may be that the error message is misleading, though. 
> > > > Did you try downloading the .bz2 file and testing it?
> > >
> > > Well, fact is, there is no .bz2 file. Only a .gz.
> >
> > It certainly works with other archives which have only Packages.gz...I
> > wonder what's weird about experimental.
> 
> Well, it's an intermittent problem it seems.
> 
> Two runs, directly one after another (sources file reduced to only experimental)
> 
> precious:/etc/apt# apt-get update
> Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental Release.gpg
> Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental Release
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
> Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Packages
> Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Packages
> Get:3 ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Packages
> Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Packages
> Get:4 ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages [146kB]
> Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Packages
> Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Packages
> Fetched 146kB in 2s (59.0kB/s)
> Reading package lists... Done

This doesn't look quite right...please send sources.list.

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 - mdz