Bug#307942: apt-get autoclean removes valid cache members

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 307942 normal
thanks

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:32:06PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.1
> Severity: important
> 
> apt-get autoclean removes valid cache members
> 
> Hi, this is actually a replay of archived bug #180395.
> 
> I have just run apt-get autoclean, which blew away 279 packages
> (fortunately I had a backup). Of these, most were _NOT_ unavailable, as
> apt-cache policy [package] reveals. 
> 
> I ran the last autoclean and full dist-upgrade just 4 days ago. Now
> dist-upgrade wants to upgrade 69 packages, so I would expect not more
> than 69 packages to be unavailable and therefore valid candidates for
> removal.
> 
> I have observed similar behaviour before and since I'm behind a 64 K
> dialup, my cache is /precious/ to me. Please let me know what I can do
> to help remedy this!

Can you provide a recipe for reproducing this bug?  It seems to be mostly
inference.  Which packages were removed unexpectedly?  Which version was in
the cache, and which version was available in the archive?

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 - mdz