Bug#583502: Processed: retitle 583502 to apt generates incorrect index uris

[Willi Mann <willi@wm1.at>]

Am 2010-05-29 00:23, schrieb David Kalnischkies:
> Hi,
> 
> as every other (interesting) config setting this one is also documented
> in apt.conf (5) section Acquire group, item CompressionTypes.
> That the internet doesn't know about it by now is caused by the
> fact that it is relatively "new".
> The default is "bz2", "lzma", "gz".
> 
> I suspect you don't have bzip2 installed, but lzma (and gzip)?
> So APT will ignore "bz2" as it can't unpack it without bzip2,
> tries lzma and if this file can't be downloaded
> (and it can't from any official debian server) "gz".
> End of the story.

Yes, I didn't explicitly install bzip2, so it's probably the reason for
this bug.

Ritesh, could you add a recommends to bzip2 in apt-offline? That would
probably solve the problem for most people, at least if they only use
the official archive.

WM