Please provide Contents-ARCH.gz for all pockets

[era]

Binary package hint: apt-file

As seen in bug 179420, hardy, gutsy-proposed, and also gutsy-backports and gutsy-security lack any Contents-i386.gz file.

While arguably you could expect most of the time that the -proposed updates will probably contain exactly the same files as the packages they replace in the stable baseline distribution, this is not always necessarily so; and furthermore, a nasty side effect is observed in bug 176753.

For these reasons, it would seem like a good practice to provide a Contents-ARCH.gz file for all official repositories.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Assigning to ubuntu-archive.

Additionally, is there some documentation about how and when those Contents files get generated? I've seen that there are now files available for hardy, while during gutsy development there weren't any.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This needs to be fixed in Soyuz.

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

Hi, this appears to me to make "apt-file update" fail in Dapper. Could you please put a Contents-$ARCH.gz file up so that "apt-file update" will start working on my dapper systems? Thanks!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

https://pastebin.canonical.com/6613/ is working for me on mawson. (Private URL due to being a Launchpad patch.)

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

RF 6662