Control: tags -1 = newcomer Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:01:27PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > It would be nice if there was a command to remove the downloaded lists and > the indexes (although the latter can also be removed by just dropping all > files below /var/cache, which would be allowed in any case). "apt clean" already deals with clearing /var/cache/apt and even lists/partial, so it shouldn't be too hard to add a related command which cleans up lists/ (as well). For mild security benefits I would recommend keeping the Release files (either InRelease or Release) around though (Signed-By, metadata changes, downgrade attacks, …). The hardest part might be coming up with a name for the command, I guess "distclean" would be kinda appropriate, even through it reuses "dist" which we have in "dist-upgrade" with a slightly different meaning – but that name is deprecated. It does come up once in a while, so this is definitely a feature some people would enjoy, but nobody tried to implement it so far and as I think this is a good opportunity for someone currently not involved with APT to get their feet wet I am tagging it 'newcomer' and happily await patches/merge requests. If someone is interested and/or has a question (of any kind) feel free to drop a line here, on our mailinglist deity@lists.debian.org and/or on IRC in #debian-apt. Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: Dropping the "upstream" tag as there is hardly any bugreport for apt which could not be tagged upstream. We are upstream after all…
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