According to Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Have you tried removing the files under /var/state/apt/lists?  

Nope.

> These are what is being read during the "Reading Package Lists..."
> phase.  
 
But this information revealed the reason for the behaviour I reported:
the problem spot was references to now defunct sunsite.tut.fi mirror in 
/etc/apt/sources.list. I removed those and everything was working fine 
again. I guess this is still worth a proper bug report for APT.
 
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