* apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:

  - fix a merge modification (done by me) that prevents the
    fallback to the uncompressed 'Packages' to work correctly

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc b/apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc
index 679f9cee7..ae8ff2205 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc
@@ -711,13 +711,14 @@ void pkgAcqIndex::Done(string Message,unsigned long Size,string Hash,
    else
       Local = true;
    
-   string compExt = flExtension(URI(Desc.URI).Path);
+   string compExt = flExtension(flNotDir(URI(Desc.URI).Path));
    const char *decompProg;
    if(compExt == "bz2") 
       decompProg = "bzip2";
-   else if(compExt == ".gz") 
+   else if(compExt == "gz") 
       decompProg = "gzip";
-   else if(compExt == "")
+   // flExtensions returns the full name if no extension is found
+   else if(compExt == flNotDir(URI(Desc.URI).Path))
       decompProg = "copy";
    else {
       _error->Error("Unsupported extension: %s", compExt.c_str());