Bug#821792: Bug reproduced, happens only for apt list translation files, please fix

[Axel Rohde]

Dear

Package Maintainers and Authors

 

after ading

 

   Acquire::GzipIndexes "true";

 

in apt.conf to save disk space and moreover reduce wear on the SSD

I ran into the same failure as decribed in this bug report.

 

Further digging into the matter revealed that
update-apt-xapian-index fails *only* on lz4-compressed apt list translation files, but lz4 compressed *_Packages files
such as
  ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages.lz4
work fine.

 

Could you please fix the root cause?

 

I don't think that the nice apt feature (compression of list files) should be given up

because apt-xapian-index partially can't handle it.

 

The comment of the originator of the this bug report wrote

   I solved my problem by commenting out
     Acquire::GzipIndexes "true";

 

What he describes is a workaround, not a fix.