Bug#316337: Here we are

[Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@home.nl>]

The patch works just fine for me, after updating 
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial is still empty. If this patch makes it to the 
next version of APT, it would be useful to have the postinst script 
remove all the empty files in partial/, because remnants of earlier 
update runs can still cause trouble.

NB: I modified the patch a little, my patch(1) program was confused as 
to which file it should patch. The patch attached should be run through 
patch -p1.
diff -uprN a/methods/ftp.cc b/methods/ftp.cc
--- a/methods/ftp.cc	2006-05-08 15:21:16.748025568 +0200
+++ b/methods/ftp.cc	2006-05-08 15:21:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -1055,9 +1055,12 @@ bool FtpMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)
 	 UBuf.modtime = FailTime;
 	 utime(FailFile.c_str(),&UBuf);
 	 
-	 // If the file is missing we hard fail otherwise transient fail
-	 if (Missing == true)
+	 // If the file is missing we hard fail and delete the destfile
+	 // otherwise transient fail
+	 if (Missing == true) {
+	    unlink(FailFile.c_str());
 	    return false;
+	 }
 	 Fail(true);
 	 return true;
       }