Bug#52957: apt: putting default options into apt.conf changes apt's behavior

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> If I add some default options to apt.conf (according to
> examples/apt.conf.gz), then apt does not ask if I want to delete
> the downloaded .deb files.

Where does /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf.gz ever say that it contains
default values? In fact, it has a big warning at the top about how using it
can break your system.

>     // Things that effect the APT dselect method
>     DSelect 
>     {
>        Clean "auto";   // always|auto|prompt|never

I find it hard to belive you added this and then were suprised that it
autocleaned.

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