$ ./update 
[info] Initialising xubuntu-* package lists update...
[i386] Downloading available package lists...
Downloading http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wiley/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 file ...
Downloading http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wiley/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz file ...
Downloading http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wiley/main/binary-i386/Packages file ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/germinate-update-metapackage", line 36, in <module>
    main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/germinate/scripts/germinate_update_metapackage.py", line 274, in main
    germinator.parse_archive(archive)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/germinate/germinator.py", line 508, in parse_archive
    for indextype, section in archive.sections():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/germinate/archive.py", line 230, in sections
    "binary-" + self._arch + "/Packages")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/germinate/archive.py", line 207, in _open_tag_files
    raise IOError("no %s files found" % tagfile_type)
OSError: no Packages files found