Bug#368361: Bug found
Hi,
I finally found the problem. It really wasn't easy to guess. In fact,
since the addition of diff-based Packages, apt-get tries to fetch
a file called Packages.diff/Index, which contains the index of the
diffs.
On my personal repository, I do not use diff-based Packages, so there's
no Packages.diff directory and no Packages.diff/Index. However, I had
an Apache rewrite rule which had the effect of returning an HTML
webpage instead of a 404 when querying for Packages.diff/Index. So
apt-get thought that a Packages.diff/Index was available and tried to
use it... without success. So I fixed the rewrite rule in order to
return a 403 when trying to access Packages.diff/Index and it fixed the
problem.
However, it took me a very long time to find the problem. Maybe the
output of apt-get could be improved in order to display that the
problem is with the Packages.diff/Index file ?
Thanks,
Thomas
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