Bug#637047: Please tag /var/cache/apt using CACHEDIR.TAG

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.8.15.5
Severity: wishlist

Various backup utilities can automatically exclude cache directories if
tagged via the "Cache Directory Tagging" standard
(http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/).  Doing so requires creating a
file CACHEDIR.TAG in the cache directory (/var/cache/apt), containing
the contents "Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55".  Please
consider implementing this standard by creating this file, so that
backup software can automatically exclude apt's caches.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2010.08.28       GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  gnupg                   1.4.11-3         GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libc6                   2.13-14          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.1-5        GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.1-5          GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  aptitude                      0.6.4-1    terminal-based package manager (te
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-6    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.16.0.3   Debian package development tools
pn  lzma                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-apt                    0.8.0      Python interface to libapt-pkg

-- no debconf information