[Bug 1777438] Re: Empty Packages file breaks apt updating

[Julian Andres Klode]

Empty Packages files work just fine, e.g. cosmic-updates is empty and
works. Check whether your Release file is correct, listing the
uncompressed file as 0 bytes and debug with -o Debug::Acquire::http=1
and/or -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker=1 why the file is being downloaded
and that fails.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Empty Packages file breaks apt updating

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I maintain an internal repository for wheezy, jessie, trusty, xenial
  an bionic. With bionic started to see an issue that apt-get update
  waits for a long time and eventually fails with:

  Reading package lists... Done
  W: Failed to fetch https://my_repo_url/dists/bionic/myrepo/binary-i386/Packages  Undetermined Error [IP: 1.2.3.4 443]
  W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

  I don't have packages in binary-i386 but I do in binary-amd64. The
  reason seems to be that Packages file is empty (as created by dpkg-
  scanpackages), since if I manually add just "#" to the file, updating
  works again.

  Empty Packages -file works in previous versions, so this seems to be a
  regression.

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