Ansgar Burchardt writes: > debootstrap should support archives that only provide Packages.xz. > > I'll try to take a look at implementing this soon. From a quick glance > it shouldn't be too difficult given several compression formats are > already supported (bz2, gz, uncompressed).
I've prepared a patch for this[1]. It worked for me with both a Packages.xz suite (stretch) and one only providing Package.bz2, but not .xz (squeeze). Ansgar [1] https://github.com/aburch/debootstrap/commit/1689d645aacb0bc3f9edb86526f67e776469942a
