[Debian-au] debian mirrors automatic compression

[Geoff Crompton]

Hi,

We use the aarnet mirror for debian packages. I've noticed today the 
installation of a VM isn't working.

I think it may be because when I download 
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en, 
I get a bz2 compressed file instead. I've also noticed that at 
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/ the 
uncompressed file isn't listed.

I don't think the Debian installer expects that (or at least the debian 
installed I'm using, on the iso I uploaded to my virtualisation 
environment many months ago). The 
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/Release file 
suggests I should be able to download either main/i18n/Translation-en or 
main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2.

I suspect if the main/i18n/Translation-en download failed, the installer 
would then try the bz2 download, and it might proceed.

Does anyone have any comments on this?

As a point of reference, it seems ftp.au.debian.org is behaving just 
like mirror.aarnet.edu.au, but ftp.nz.debian.org is returning a 404 on 
http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en.

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