APT: what's wrong with this sources.list?

Hi, My /etc/apt/sources/list has a line like this: deb file:/debian unstable main contrib non-free When I run apt-get update I get: polux:/tmp# apt-get update Err file:/debian/ unstable/main Packages Invalid URI, local URIS must not start with // Ign file:/debian/ unstable/main Release Err

Re: APT: what's wrong with this sources.list?

It's a bug in apt (reported already), hopefully they'll have a fix out soon. According to the changelog, they changed the way sources.list lines are parsed to fix one bug, and accidentally introduced another... In the mean time, it seems to work if you put two colons after the 'file', something