I am assuming your report is a wishlist entry for a better error message in case sources exist, but the data isn't available. If not you should clarify what you mean.
The rest of the mail is unrelated to the wishlist entry, but might explain why you ended up in that situation and how to avoid it. Am Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 11:23:13PM +0930, schrieb Orion82: > Looked into "/var/lib/apt/lists/". It has the InRelease files, but missing > package data. That smells like you called 'apt distclean', which does remove the data and just keeps the Release files. Are you sure you actually want that to happen? Assuming you haven't disabled automatic cleanup & are using 'apt' it might be best to not call any 'clean' commands. > Guess the files in "/var/lib/apt/lists/" are periodically cleaned? No. Assuming you aren't e.g. in a sbuild managed chroot or use something else that happens to make that apt call for you in some way. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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