Package: apt Severity: minor Version: 0.9.15.5 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 ) However, later on in the script, starting around line 170, the loop that actually deletes files when MaxSize is non-zero includes the comments "reverse-sort by mtime" and "delete oldest file", and in fact the loop that processes the files goes through them in "ls -rt" order.... (This mismatch was true in various Debian versions going back for a while, and still seems to be true in the latest Git: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=blob;f=debian/apt.cron.daily;hb=HEAD , i.e. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=blob;f=debian/apt.cron.daily;h=71ac76555f00611973d6f2ffaa9c9277c490efd5;hb=a4a5901577a2b0d72f1c973f036a8198046d937a as of today.) Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org