On Tue 22 Mar 2016 at 12:45:46 (+0100), Sven Hartge wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote: > > > Any clue to why the debian repositories, especially testing and sid, > > seem to be unchanged since Mar 20th? > > Maybe this has something to do with the removal of the SHA1 checksums in > the Release file and the removal of gzipped Packages files? Perhaps > something internally broke and the mirrors are not updated correctly any > more.
It's also preventing expiration of packages in my apt-cacher-ng archive through its inability to download all the various types of Packages and Sources files. Mind you, that may be a good thing because the rather high number of packages tagged for removal might itself be a consequence of the absence of those Packages files. Cheers, David.