Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > >Yes. It made no sense to ship the others and the uncompressed files too, > >no known utility made use of them. > > That's fine - no problem with this (except that it should > have communicated better)

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Yes. It made no sense to ship the others and the uncompressed files too, no known utility made use of them. That's fine - no problem with this (except that it should have communicated better). Adaption to use bzip2 was easy to me - but learning about t

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11714 March 1977, Andreas Tille wrote: > Moreover I noticed that the translation files I obtained from >http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/ > are not available as gz any more but only as bz2. Yes. It made no sense to ship the others and the uncompressed files too, no known

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11714 March 1977, Martin Bagge wrote: >>This FTP server belongs to Academic Computer Club, Umeå >> University. Technical information is available here. > because that's true. ACC is the sponsor of ftp.debian.org. No its not. It is one site that hosts a Debian mirror. And it is one site tha

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Andreas Tille (Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:59:32 +0200): > Hi, > while building Blends tasks pages I used to parse the packages file >http://ftp.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' >http://ftp.debian.org/de

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' > >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz This is the only official URL that works across all official mirrors. You only had luck that the form

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
Andreas Tille wrote: http://ftp.debian.org/ says: This FTP server belongs to Academic Computer Club, Umeå University. Technical information is available here. because that's true. ACC is the sponsor of ftp.debian.org. on the other hand ftp.d.o is not a good place to get accurate status

Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, while building Blends tasks pages I used to parse the packages file http://ftp.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz to acces