Bug#657560: #657560: apt: ...i18n_Translation-en Encountered a section with no Package: header
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:00, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> Le 06.03.2012 11:33, David Kalnischkies a écrit :
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 15:35, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
>> The problem is here that some (yes, neither all nor many) mirrors try content-
>> negotiation for the request of Translation-en even though the requesting
>> client (apt in this case) hasn't indicated that it would support this.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand.
>
> Are there mirrors that have the long descriptions available in another
> format than .bz2 ? Or are you saying that some mirrors send
> Translation-*.bz2 files with anything else than Content-Type:
> application/x-bzip2 in their HTTP headers ?
No, i am saying that apt asks for Translation-en and the server response
with Translation-en.bz2. APT knows that it can't request the bz2 file if bzip2
isn't available, but some mirrors try to be helpful and clever…
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation
Only a few mirrors seem to be configured to act this way, at least de, de2
and us are not effected as far as i have tested.
(which is why i was never hit by that bug after implementing the request for
uncompressed files to support users with local mirrors which actually have
these files available)
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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