Package: apt-cacher
Version: 1.5.4
Severity: normal
The apt-cacher man page says
clean_cache [1] Whether to flush old packages from your cache
daily. Packages are deleted on the basis of whether they
have been superseded by newer pack‐ages, not on age, so
it should be safe to leave this on.
If one is using several releases (e.g., testing, unstable) it's not
clear to me if the comparison is made within release or across releases.
It sounds as if all but the unstable version might get purged, which would
basically mean apt-cacher was not acting as a cache for all of the
releases.
Since this effects the suitability of apt-cacher for some uses, I've
left this as a normal bug. That is, the bug is that there's no way to
tell if apt-cacher is appropriate with multiple releases.
Similar issues may apply for people with different architectures.
This is *not* about attempting to combine (e.g.) Debian and Ubuntu
archives, the subject of a couple of other bugs/requests.
*If* apt-cacher keeps only one of the releases, then please also
consider this a wishlist request that it be able to handle more than
one at a time.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt-cacher depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
apt-cacher recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
