X-Debbugs-No-Ack: please Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: wishlist I notice the modification date of /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages is frozen for no good reason and does not reflect the freshness of that file's contents, under your new Diffs updating system. No big deal you might say, but one needs to add a -u to cpio -idvm if transferring it from another machine, and it looks bad and doesn't reflect reality.