On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, it was written: > Hello world, > > In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease > to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their > place (actually, if you look carefully, they're already being generated). > Sources.bz2 files are being added too. If you have any scripts looking > at the uncompressed Packages files, you should change them to look at > either the gzip or bzip2 versions now. > > Presuming things continue to work in unstable, the same change will be > made to testing in a few weeks. Similarly, the Contents-*.gz files for > unstable will probably be switching to .bz2 in the not too distant future. > > (Yes, this is as previously discussed in March 2001...)
This will break apt, as it doesn't look for compressed versions when using file uris.
