These archives have different meta-data structure. Both archives can store actual package files. Many older repository HOWTOs (e.g. old "Debian Reference (sarge)" and "APT HOWTO (sarge)") address creation of a "trivial archive" and are problematic since the "trivial archive" lacks support for apt-pinning meta-data used by APT Preferences due to the collision of 2 types of Release files. For the se