Bug#195018: Woody's default APT::Cache-limit too small to upgrade
Filip Van Raemdonck wrote (on May 28):
> [1] Hmm, I just realized - this could also become a problem if the
> testing Packages file becomes too big before we release and
> people update from current stable (woody) to new stable (sarge)
> _when_ we release.
FWIW, this seems to be close to happening now. I just got hit with it
on a freshly installed woody system with the following sources.list,
which is not very extravagant:
deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
The default cache is still barely large enough if the two "unstable"
lines are "testing" instead, but if packages propagate from unstable
to testing faster than others get dropped, things will get
interesting.
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