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Bug#637047: marked as done (Please tag /var/cache/apt using CACHEDIR.TAG)

Your message dated Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:15:34 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#637047: Please tag /var/cache/apt using CACHEDIR.TAG
has caused the Debian Bug report #637047,
regarding Please tag /var/cache/apt using CACHEDIR.TAG
to be marked as done.

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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

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On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 07:36:35PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 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.

APT adheres to the FHS, which designates /var/cache for cached
files. This "standard" you are referring to is not intented to
be applied to system directories, but to cache directories in
the $HOME directories of users.

System backup software should adhere to the FHS and ignore
files below /var/cache automatically. There is no need to
invent another mechanism to tag a directory as a cache
directory twice.
-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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