On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:00, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> wrote: > Le 06.03.2012 11:33, David Kalnischkies a écrit : >> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 15:35, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
