Bug#753531: apt-get clean executes 'rm /*' if Dir::Cache is set to ""

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 01:05:16PM +0200, Cédric Barboiron wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:59:57 +0200
[..]
> Hi Michael, and thanks for your answer.
> 
> The use-case was indeed to disable the bin cache. Your patch is a good
> protection against misreading the manual. Btw, I tried with '/dev/null'
> only because it is handled differently in configuration.cc, I don't
> think it's useful to protect against this.
> 
> For the manpage, I believe changing "their names" and "empty string"
> to the actual values would be clear enough (attached patch).

Great, that looks good! Your patch (and the patch to error when
cleaning "/") is now part of the debian/sid branch and it will be part
of the next upload.

Thanks for your help with making the documentation better!

Cheers,
 Michael