Approx only caches *.gz files, not .bz2 or any other compressed form.
The reason is that approx needs to decompress and recompress large
Packages files when applying pdiffs, and the other compression schemes
are too time-consuming.
So it denies any others (returns 404), even if they might exist at the
remote site. This works OK with apt-get and aptitude, which will fall
back to the .gz version.
I suppose I could allow approx to fetch .bz2 and other compressed
versions if pdiffs are disabled ("$pdiffs false") -- would that be
useful?
Otherwise the only way to make debmirror work with approx would be if
it can be told to use .gz files instead of .bz2. (I haven't used it,
so I don't know.)
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