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diff --git a/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc b/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
index 52f54073c..4b14e964a 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ const Configuration::getCompressionTypes(bool const &Cached) {
types.push_back(*o);
}
+ // default to preferring gzip, so that compressed indexes work
+ if (order.empty())
+ types.push_back("gz");
+
// move again over the option tree to add all missing compression types
::Configuration::Item const *Types = _config->Tree("Acquire::CompressionTypes");
if (Types != 0)