Bug#740551: documentation for APT::Periodic::MaxSize v.s. processing in apt.cron.daily

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:09:55PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> Package: apt
> Severity: minor
> Version: 0.9.15.5

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> Near the top of /etc/cron.daily/apt, the documentation for the MaxSize
> variable says:
> 
> #  APT::Periodic::MaxSize "0"; (new)
> #  - Set maximum size of the cache in MB (0=disable). If the cache
> #    is bigger, cached package files are deleted until the size
> #    requirement is met (the biggest packages will be deleted 
> #    first).
> 
> (This same text is also found in 
> /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz )
[..]

Indeed, this is incorrect since a very long time. I updated the
documentation to match what the script is really doing.

Cheers,
 Michael