Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-30 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi folks, > I also tried to prevent the "negatiation" from happening by passing > "Accept-Encoding: identity" in the HTTP request using wget, but that > didn't help I just realized that this is not about Accept-Encoding, but the "Accept:" header. If apt would send an Accept: text/plain header, th

Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-26 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Steve, > I had to copy the bzip2 deb package from a working host and install to > get apt to work. Seems you point out a relevant issue here: Existing wheezy and sid hosts that do not have bzip2, for whatever reason, now have their apt broken without the option of fixing them through apt dire

Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Allison
Thank you! I've been trying to understand why some machines were failing apt-get and not others. I've been using mirror, http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ for wheezy I had to copy the bzip2 deb package from a working host and install to get apt to work. === 99% [9 Translation-e

Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-25 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi folks, I'm seeing a similar problem on a chroot that doesn't have bzip2, combined with a mirror that only offers the bzip2 version (with and without .bz2 extension). I can reproduce this on my regular system by adding this sources.list line, deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ wheezy mai

Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-23 Thread Simon Paillard
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Andreas Beckmann writes: > > wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/Translation-en > > => 404 Not Found > > wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 > > => 200 OK Length: 38

Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
reassign 657029 mirrors thanks Andreas Beckmann writes: > wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/Translation-en > => 404 Not Found > wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 > => 200 OK Length: 3857620 (3.7M) [application/x-bzip2] > wget ht

Bug#657029: apt-get update does not understand content negotiation

2012-01-23 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apt Version: 0.8.15.9 Severity: normal Hi, I just noticed the following failure while running apt-get update in a fresh, clean sid chroot: E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp2.de.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp (1) W: Failed t