Control: tag -1 +fixed-upstream Hello Valmiky,
Thank you for the bug report. On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 17:04 +0000, Valmiky Arquissandas wrote: > - Considering that, at least in Debian 9, using the default > deb.debian.org entry in sources.list, the database files are xzipped > (therefore, depending on python-lzma), this is a problem, and the > error > message is misleading. > Hmmm. I was under the impression that this functionality (that of what archive backend) was left out to the mirror admins. In today's day, though, the standard practise is to simply use what the master node serves. > Given this scenario, I suggest the Debian package to have python-lzma > in > Depends instead of Recommends, and/or the upstream apt-offline to > present more information if the module lzma is not available, even > if > only with --verbose, and especially when that is a cause of failure. > For quite some time, Debian has enabled to install Recommends, by default. That is why I marked it as a Recommends, so that it remains flexible for users who don't use the lzma based backend. Can you please check if you have explicitly disabled installation of Recommends in your setup ? > I know that the current versions are written in Python 3, but as long > as > Debian 9 is the current stable, this issue may burn someone else. I have added the following warning. Will backport some time for Stretch. Let's keep this bug open until then. If you don't see activity on this bug report in the next 2 months, please do ping. rrs@priyasi:~/rrs-home/devel/apt-offline/apt-offline (master)$ ./apt- offline install /var/tmp/upgrade.zip WARN: lzma module unavailable WARN: Please install python lzma module for APT lzma backend PS: You have a very cool name. In Sanskrit, this name is after a great sage who wrote the holy Ramayana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmiki -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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