Bug#90467: wishlist: mv /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist

It seems that if the files in /var/lib/apt/lists are deleted, they
will be automatically downloaded again on the next apt-get update.
So I think this qualifies as cached data, the sort of data that one
wouldn't normally bother to backup.  Would you consider moving this
directory to /var/cache/apt?  I (and I expect many others) exclude
/var/cache from backups by default.

Thanks,

Dan


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux scratchy 2.4.1 #1 Fri Feb 2 16:17:53 EST 2001 i686

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.2-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.3-6 The GNU stdc++ library