Control: fixed -1 1.1~exp4 Control: severity -1 normal Hi, On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 08:34:33PM +0100, Valerio Passini wrote: > This bug it's tremendous: if in my source list there is this Debian mirror > line: > > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free; > > the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ is quickly filled by a Diff_index file > growing at a 30MB/s rate until the partition is full. Quite obviously the next Well, I can't reproduce it here. Was the file really just called "Diff_index"? I presume it was: ftp.it.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages.IndexDiff which is the filename for this file: http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/main/binary-amd64/Packages.diff/Index > boot is going to fail for the lack of disk space. I can't understand if this > bug it's in the mirror or in apt, but it's quite annoying and should really be > fixed ASAP. Best regards There isn't much we can do about it at the moment. apt/stretch (not jessie!) will know (most) filesizes in advance and check that it isn't getting feed too much, but that is just preventing bad sympthoms to appear (= full disk), it isn't a solution for the (unknown) initial problem. Could be a misbehaving proxy (do you have one?), a misbehaving server, your ISP (via a misbehaving proxy) or any classic man-in-the-middle really. Hard to know without details. Can you even reproduce it? I am not fully closing this bug as fixed in future version just yet because I would like to understand what is going on here in case we can do anything about it (further) to prevent this from happening, but I am downgrading drastically as this isn't a new issue (= always possible in all versions of apt), apt isn't made unusuable by it, we are not loosing any data (well, with a fulldisk we potentially are, but that is the bug of other tools not handling this case) and its not opening a security hole. So neither of the reasons for 'grave' apply here and hence not release critical. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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