Vincent McIntyre wrote:
[snip]
> Possibly the problem is that we aren't using pdiffs in our repo?
> On the test machine /etc/apt/apt.conf has them turned off -
>    Acquire {
>      Pdiffs                "false";
>    };
> so I'm at a bit of a loss why apt would even ask for a Packages.decomp.
> Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding this.
This is normal. Packages.decomp is just unarchived version of 
Packages.{bz2,gz}, apt
should ask for new Packages if PDiffs are no there or this option is turned off 
in config.

Since some time in the past, I've looked into code and, possibly, found the race
condition. Bad news that it wouldn't be easy to fix it.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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