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Bug#513157: marked as done (apt: files in directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial)

Your message dated Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:25:42 +0200
with message-id <20150812102542.GA20692@crossbow>
and subject line Re: Additional information, bug found in apt/0.8.10 as well
has caused the Debian Bug report #513157,
regarding apt: files in directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20
Severity: normal

Dear APT development team,

lately I see files accumulating in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial from "aptitude
update" to "aptitude update".
In my understanding, in this directory should only remain files in case the
"update" command got interrupted somehow.
Shouldn't the files in directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial not be removed
automatically?
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.

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Version: 1.1~exp4

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:24:35AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> This is a long-standing, security relevant bug in a Debian specific
> package. This should not happen. :-(

Wishful thinking doesn't resolve bugs. Contributions and patches do.


> The obvious solution is for 'apt-get update' to retrieve fresh versions
> of every partial list and replace the old partial list if a complete list
> could be downloaded. As an optimization apt may try to continue from the
> partial list, but if that should fail for any reason, it needs to start
> a fresh download of the complete list. This must be done automatically.

That is what happens™. It should happen even better with what we have in
debian/experimental at the moment as this features a rewrite of the
acquire system.

> In addition, bug #762891 should be fixed as well, because partial lists

It is now - in the same experimental version.


> The bug is easily reproducible by placing incomplete Realease lists
> inside the /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ directory. Please fix this bug.

I can't reproduce it with this anymore, so this is therefore done.


Note that this bug developed into a kind of catch all as the initial
report was an incompatibility of aptitude with a newer libapt, some
messages in between were talking about a bug in handling of pdiffs,
which weren't cleanup and the last one is actually a report about apt
writing to a file endlessly filling up the disk… but catch-alls aren't
useful to work with, and all these I mentioned are fixed in the meantime
as well, so yet another reason to close this now.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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