APT repository snapshot doesn't contains Translation-en

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Hello there,
we have just started to test Nexus Repository OSS out and are encountering an issue with the snapshot functionality for a Debian repository.

# apt -o "Acquire::https::Verify-Peer=false" update
Hit:1 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:2 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm InRelease [151 kB]
Get:3 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/main amd64 Packages [8,906 kB]
Get:4 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/main Translation-en [6,078 kB]
Ign:4 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/main Translation-en
Ign:6 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/non-free-firmware Translation-en
Ign:4 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/main Translation-en
Ign:6 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/non-free-firmware Translation-en
Ign:4 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/main Translation-en
Ign:6 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/non-free-firmware Translation-en
Err:4 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/main Translation-en
  404  Not Found [IP: IPADDRESS 443]
Ign:6 https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing bookworm/non-free-firmware Translation-en
Fetched 151 kB in 2s (97.3 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://REPONAME/repository/DebianBookworm/snapshots/testing/dists/bookworm/main/i18n/Translation-en  404  Not Found [IP: IPADDRESS 443]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Seems like there was a bug in apt-mirror, which already is fixed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=932379

InRelease also points to Translation-en.xz, which some kind of proofs this type of bug

 458b519a9515efb62639a74eb55fedfe  5319224 main/i18n/Translation-da.bz2
 cf3f1d7c20f2c18683ed01283b80090a  8017516 main/i18n/Translation-de
 5a1a49bf64f24f0cc17d1b67f840fa1c  1748338 main/i18n/Translation-de.bz2
 a344219bf0eec9139d5270017ecfceee     1347 main/i18n/Translation-de_DE
 0fe0725f74bb5249f15f30ce965142d5      830 main/i18n/Translation-de_DE.bz2
 87bf9810c05aba15fb4aca6791feb73d     6257 main/i18n/Translation-el
 002ddfc4187acd8414873fe9f0a6442a     1835 main/i18n/Translation-el.bz2
 53e4bab9462668e2611b358f2e1bbb66 32647379 main/i18n/Translation-en
 82ed02e6ab327bb10a5d7569964747ba  6077872 main/i18n/Translation-en.xz
 0fdd8948881357f49ead0845c7e621c1     2261 main/i18n/Translation-eo
 43bd21f8b5d52b955e509e5893eef37e     1196 main/i18n/Translation-eo.bz2
 1b2a543b98a2709bae56d119feef36e6  1261022 main/i18n/Translation-es
 bfceaabae69964abe04d94fb5646517c   302938 main/i18n/Translation-es.bz2
 6f2fbc4fcf641c2a1bb2e27bbced1ec7     8409 main/i18n/Translation-eu
 a0036f2fce44c227d42752af0610c186     3379 main/i18n/Translation-eu.bz2

Does this piece of software use apt-mirror, or is there something else I can check?

Thanks!

Best regards,
David

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Did some further research. It seems like whole i18n and source folders aren’t included in snapshots repository, so the needed meta files can’t be loaded by apt.
The reason might be the exclusion of these folders in https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public/blob/9f495755f08bfc64cc58415432bf95a6cf4aab92/plugins/nexus-repository-apt/src/main/java/org/sonatype/nexus/repository/apt/internal/AptFacetHelper.java#L48

I will create an issue on GitHub and ask for further help there.

Best regards,
David