Bug#222639: apt: Cache-Limit influences Release processing, without notice on failure

[Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.14
Severity: important

With the attached sources.list and apt.conf (sorry, many internal
mirrors), the (manually added to the local mirror) Release file from
backports.org Release file gets ignored, as shown:

# apt-cache policy |grep -A2 mozilla
 500 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr woody/mozilla Packages
     origin debian-mirror.alcove-fr
Pinned Packages:


If the Cache-Limit is raised from 10M to 100M, and the cache rebuilt,
then:

# apt-cache policy |grep -A2 mozilla
 500 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr woody/mozilla Packages
     release o=backports.org,a=mozilla,l=mozilla,c=main
     origin debian-mirror.alcove-fr
Pinned Packages:


-> an error should be signaled on cache updating, or people will loose
time hunting for this - especially since all the caching done by apt
constantly goes in the way

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.22+nfs-ngroups+preempt+lowlatency-station #1 lun oct 20 12:08:50 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library

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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>                 http://www.alcove.com/
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Senior Free-Software Consultant          Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres
Debian developer (dirson@debian.org)                        Développeur Debian